Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985
Sale 1131 - Photographs
Dec 6, 2022
1:00PM CT
Live / Chicago
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$4,000 -
6,000
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$5,313
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Lot Description
Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985
(born 1944)
This used to be the large Lake Faguibine. It dried up little by little with the drought and invasion of the desert. All the men have gone, only the children, the elderly and the women remain, Mali, 1985
Gelatin silver print, printed later, copyright blindstamp in the margin; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.
image: 13 1/2 x 20in (34.3 x 50.8cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)
An Important Western Collection
This starkly beautiful image by Salgado is of Lake Faguibine which was once ranked among the largest lakes in West Africa. From the time of the Sahel drought in the 1970s and 1980s, however, it has slowly dried up rendering traditional activities of fishing, agriculture and livestock rearing virtually obsolete.
Other wonderful examples of Salgado's "photographic homage to the world in its natural state," as he describes it, can be found elsewhere in this sale.
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