Beyond Looking: Sebastião Salgado’s Religious Response to a World in Crisis

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2006
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Haverford College. Department of Religion
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The Religion Prize
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This essay explores the question of how Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado uses his photographs to transform his viewers’ vision and provoke an ethical response. Religion, here, constitutes the ways in which people orient themselves to values and meanings both within and beyond the keepings of human society. Salgado constructs his photographs so as to facilitate a multi-sensory response, thus shattering the modern, visually-dominated mode of perception, which he considers alienating. Thus, by using his photographic representations of reality intervene in his audience’s viewing process, Salgado orients and re-orients his viewers to reality as he sees it.
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