Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia.(Taschen 45th Edition) - Lélia Wanick Salgado

Sebastião Salgado. Amazônia is a monumental photographic work created over six years of travel through the Brazilian Amazon, documenting one of the most vital and threatened ecosystems on Earth. Published by Taschen as a special 45th Edition, the book captures the vast forests, rivers, and mountains of the Amazon alongside intimate portraits of its indigenous communities, revealing a world where nature and humanity remain deeply interconnected. Through striking black-and-white photography, Salgado presents the Amazon as a living, breathing universe of extraordinary beauty and power, while emphasizing its global importance as a natural and cultural treasure.

Main Themes of the Book

• The Amazon rainforest as a living ecosystem
• Indigenous cultures and ancestral traditions
• The relationship between humanity and nature
• Environmental preservation and sustainability
• Documentary photography as social testimony

Reasons to Choose This book by Lélia Wanick Salgado

• Created by world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado
• Part of Taschen’s prestigious 45th Anniversary Editions
• Exceptional photographic quality and large-format presentation
• Deep ethnographic and environmental significance
• Supports awareness of conservation through Instituto Terra

Amazônia is more than a photography book; it is a powerful visual manifesto for the preservation of one of the planet’s most irreplaceable regions. Through Sebastião Salgado’s lens, the Amazon emerges not as a distant wilderness, but as a living world that must be protected. This Taschen edition is an essential volume for lovers of photography, nature, and socially engaged art.