Genesis

这几乎是摄影集里极少见的、能把"震撼"二字从形容词变成生理反应的作品。读者反复提到读它时的身体反应：头皮发麻、手心冒汗、灵魂被击中，甚至要"洗干净手、关上门、放古典乐"才能进入。Salgado用二十多年行走地球，把亚马逊雨林、非洲部落、极地冰川与矿工炼狱一一框入黑白——他主动抛弃色彩，正是为了让光与影承担全部的重量。这本书最打动人也最具争议的，恰恰是它拒绝温和：当土著部落的影像带着人类学式的冷峻逼近，当"文明"与"星球"的格格不入被赤裸呈现，喜欢国家地理式美的读者会不安，不喜黑白的人仍被"精神攻击"击穿。它不是用来消遣的画册，而是一次对观看本身的考验：适合那些愿意被照片重新塑造，而非仅仅欣赏照片的人。

The photographers: Sebastião Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in Paris in 1973 and subsequently worked with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos. In 1994 he and his wife Lélia created Amazonas Images, an agency that handles exclusively his work. Salgado's photographic projects have been featured in many exhibitions as well as books, including Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations (2000), and The Children (2000). The editor and author: Lélia Wanick Salgado studied Architecture and Urban Planning in Paris. Her interest in photography started in the early 1970s and she moved on to conceiving and designing photography books and organizing exhibitions, numerous of them on Sebastião Salgado. Since 1994 Lélia Wanick Salgado is director of the press agency Amazonas Images.