Sebastião Salgado - workers
In 1986 Sebastião Salgado began a series of reportages on the theme of
manual labor, throughout the different continents. This work was
conceived to tell the story of an era. The images offer a visual
archaeology of a time that history knows as the Industrial Revolution, a
time when men and women work with their hands provided the central axis
of the world. The pictures Salgado took all had a story behind them, they all had a meaning and had an impact small or big on a lot of people. I think his idea behind this was to show what we have. These people were still working with their hands, no technology or and machinery to help them. This would have taken a much longer time to complete jobs than it would without machinery. We still complain about jobs even though we have all this technology etc and I think this is what Salgado was trying to show through pictures.
In 1986 Sebastião Salgado began a series of reportages on the theme of
manual labor, throughout the different continents. This work was
conceived to tell the story of an era. The images offer a visual
archaeology of a time that history knows as the Industrial Revolution, a
time when men and women work with their hands provided the central axis
of the world. The pictures Salgado took all had a story behind them, they all had a meaning and had an impact small or big on a lot of people. I think his idea behind this was to show what we have. These people were still working with their hands, no technology or and machinery to help them. This would have taken a much longer time to complete jobs than it would without machinery. We still complain about jobs even though we have all this technology etc and I think this is what Salgado was trying to show through pictures. 
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