woensdag, januari 18, 2006
Titanium Leica M7 geveild voor 90.000 euro
Photographer Sebastião Salgado has raised the money for 120,000 trees to preserve the Brazilian rainforest with the auction proceeds of one single camera. The all-titanium Leica model fetched 90,000 euros, a new world record for cameras built after 1945. The highest bid at the camera auction of the Viennese photography scene 'Westlicht' was made by a collector from Thailand by phone. The LEICA M7 with the special serial no. 3,000,000 was awarded to Salgado by Leica Camera AG in honor of his extensive and extremely human photographic work.
Particularly with his large-scale cycles 'Workers' and 'Migration', Salgado made important contributions to the discussion of topics that affect the whole of mankind. As a documentary photographer of human fates in times of poverty, suppression and war, for example, the Brazilian has captured not only fear and sorrow but also moments full of hope, pride, incredible energy and enormous will to survive. Sebastião Salgado has already won the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award twice for his photographic work.
Bron: Leica.
Particularly with his large-scale cycles 'Workers' and 'Migration', Salgado made important contributions to the discussion of topics that affect the whole of mankind. As a documentary photographer of human fates in times of poverty, suppression and war, for example, the Brazilian has captured not only fear and sorrow but also moments full of hope, pride, incredible energy and enormous will to survive. Sebastião Salgado has already won the prestigious Leica Oskar Barnack Award twice for his photographic work.
Bron: Leica.
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