Sebastião Salgado: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado
Born February 8, 1944 • Brazil
Died May 23, 2025 (aged 81) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Praemium Imperiale (2021)
Notable Works “Other Americas” • “Sahel: Man in Distress” • “Terra: Struggle of the Landless” • “Workers”

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Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Brazilian architect
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Dith Pran
Cambodian photojournalist and interpreter
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
Self-portrait by André Kertész
André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
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Aïda Muluneh
Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur
Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White
American photographer
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W. Eugene Smith
American photographer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange
American photographer
Diane Arbus sits at a table holding a large vintage camera, looking to the side, in a black and white portrait taken in a New York Automat around 1968.
Diane Arbus
American photographer
Mark, Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen Mark
American photojournalist
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Weegee
American photographer
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Stefan Lorant
American journalist
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Thérèse Bonney
American photographer
Beals, Jessie Tarbox
Jessie Tarbox Beals
American photographer
James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey
American photojournalist
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Arthur Siegel
American photographer
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Erich Salomon
German photographer
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Andreas Feininger
American photographer
Ernst Haas, photograph by Erich Hartmann.
Ernst Haas
Austrian photographer