Workers, An Archaeology of the Industrial Age : Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

Host institution

Elvehjem Museum of Art

Organizer

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Date

• February 8, 1997-April 6, 1997

Summary

• Description from Artscene Vol. 13, No. 1: "Between 1987 and 1992 Salgado traveled around the world, creating an astonishing series of photographs devoted to the theme of manual labor and the millions of men, women, and children who continue to work with their hands in a time of increasing technological advance. Taken in more than fifty locations—from the factories of China and the Ukraine to the gold mines of Brazil to the cane fields of Cuba—Salgado's photographs chronicle the myriad ways in which labor has been defined from the Iron Age through the Industrial Revolution to the present. Workers serves as his elegy for the passing of traditional methods of labor and production." [p. 6]