Sebastião Salgado
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CURATION
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Network Node
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Name:
Sebastião Salgado
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City/Place:
Paris
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Country:
France
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Hometown:
Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Sebastião Salgado's professional training is as an economist, receiving his PhD from the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques in Paris in 1971. He began taking photographs in Africa, to where he was sent in his capacity as economist.
In 1973 he began working as a professional photographer.
HIs first book was Other Americas, covering poverty in Latin America, in 1986.
His second — published the same year — was Man in Panic, covering drought in North Africa.
His third, Rural Workers, was fruit of six years of documentation.
Since then his work has been the documentation of the unjustly downtrodden and lives threatened by the advance of the destructive aspects of civilization. Including the vast Amazon of his native Brazil.
Português:
A formação profissional de Sebastião Salgado é como economista, tendo recebido seu PhD no Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques em Paris em 1971. Ele começou a fotografar na África, para onde foi enviado em sua capacidade de economista.
Em 1973, ele começou a trabalhar como fotógrafo profissional.
Seu primeiro livro foi Outras Américas, abordando a pobreza na América Latina, em 1986.
Seu segundo - publicado no mesmo ano - foi Homem em Pânico, cobrindo a seca no Norte da África.
Seu terceiro, Trabalhadores Rurais, foi fruto de seis anos de documentação.
Desde então, seu trabalho tem sido a documentação dos oprimidos injustamente e das vidas ameaçadas pelo avanço dos aspectos destrutivos da civilização. Incluindo a vasta Amazônia de sua terra natal, o Brasil.
Contact Information
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Contact by Webpage:
http://institutoterra.org/fale-conosco-3/
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Telephone:
+55 33 3267 2025 / +55 33 3267 2302
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Address:
O INSTITUTO TERRA
RPPN Fazenda Bulcão
Caixa Postal 005
CEP 35200-000
Aimorés, MG - Brasil
Clips (more may be added)
This is a real matrix, a matrix in the original sense of the word: ˈmātriks / source / from "mater", Latin for "mother" ... inspired in El Aleph, Borges' tale in which the universe in its entirety is visible beneath a basement stairway in Buenos Aires, our Matrix conceived likewise to make perceptible the entire universe of mankind's creativity...
El Aleph P/E
Conceived under a Spiritus Mundi ranging from the quilombos and senzalas of Cachoeira and Santo Amaro to the wards of New Orleans to the South Side of Chicago to the sidewalks of Harlem to the slums of Kingston to the townships of South Africa to the villages of Ireland to the Roma camps of France and Belgium to the Vienna of Beethoven to the shtetls of Eastern Europe...*
Laroyê!
Thousands of crossroads (listed in the link immediately above) ... and millions of pathways, uncoiling from the sprawling cultural matrix of Terra Brasilis: Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, Arabic, European, Asian...
...forming a small world network, such networks existing everywhere around us, even inside us: our brains contain small world networks. Humanity is a small world network wherein over 8 billion human beings average 6 or fewer steps between any two given people, anywhere. Those steps are seldom all transitable though. In the Matrix they are. In a small world great things are possible.
*...in conversation with Raymundo Sodré, who summed this sequence up by opining for the ages: "Where there's misery, there's music!" — Thus A Massa...
...anthem for the trod-upon folk of Brazil which blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south until Sodré was silenced, threatened with death and forced into exile by the dictatorship.
And thus this: A small world network wherein all creators tend to accessible proximity to all other creators, irrespective of fame, location, or the censor.
Sparrow/Pardal Roberts
Recommend somebody and you will appear on that person's page. Somebody recommends you and they will appear on your page.
Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze: manager, Kamasi Washington
🔗connections from Kamasi include ↓
Susan Rogers
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
🔗connections from Susan include ↓
Randy Brecker
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
🔗connections from Randy include ↓
Herbie Hancock
🔗connections from Herbie include ↓
Alfredo Rodrigues
🔗connections from Alfredo include ↓
Munir Hossn
🔗connections from Munir include ↓
Roberto Mendes
🔗connections from Roberto include ↓
Maria Bethânia
🔗connections from Maria include ↓
J. Velloso
🔗connections from J. include ↓
João do Boi ↓
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd-Webber: UK's premier cellist; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad: Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals: World's premier klezmer violinist
Matrix Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, bewitching and bewitched, contouring the resplendent Bay of All Saints (end of clip below, before credits), absolute center of terrestrial gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings (and for the sublimity these people created), the bay presided over by Brazil's ineffable Black Rome: Salvador da Bahia (seat of the Integrated Global Creative Economy* and where Bule Bule is seated below, around the corner from where we built this matrix as an extension of our record shop).
Assis Valente's (of Santo Amaro, Bahia) "Brasil Pandeiro" filmed by Betão Aguiar
Betão Aguiar
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
*Darius Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and lives between Washington D.C. and Salvador da Bahia.
Between 2000 and 2004 he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola. In that capacity, Darius led a team which generated $150 million in annual lending to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure which catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment.
Darius was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the U.S. Treasury and the IMF to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and to restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile.
He taught Economics at the University of Maryland and was a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America.
Replete with Brazilian greatness, but we listened to Miles Davis and Jimmy Cliff in there too; visitors are David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR/WXPN
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
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