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Genesis was conceived as a "call to arms" for conservation and sustainability, and a way of advocating humanity’s rediscovery of itself as part of nature.

He aims to capture the few places that have remained unspoiled by human beings, or scenarios in which indigenous people live in harmony with their environment.

Sebastião Salgado Salgado works on long term, self-assigned projects many of which have been published as books: The Other Americas, Sahel, Workers, Migrations and Genesis. Salgado invites us to imagine our planet in a former state of grace.

Perhaps future generations will look at contemporary photographs in the same way! Humanity is and has been for several generations, an endangered species.

Modern photographers like Sebastião Salgado, Jimmy Nelson and Steve McCurry have built their reputations by recording the disappearing world, producing lush coffee table books which simultaneously bring closer while distancing us from the seemingly exotic. Before photography, it fell to artists to serve this function, and even though centuries have passed, their work brings us into a different relationship with the subjects depicted, which is more about feeling than observation per se. They also carry now a sense of being a museum within a museum, as much about the culture of the artist as the subject, both equally remote and exotic.

Both artists are quite matter-of fact in their depiction of slavery and conflict, which they render with precisely the same level of detachment as their idyllic jungle scenes.

From 1827 to 1835, with the help of Victor Aimé Huber, he published his monumental book Voyage Pittoresque dans le Brésil , with more than 100 illustrations, which became one of the most important documents about Brazil in the 19th century.

Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802 - 1858), was a German painter, famous for his works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in several countries in the Americas, in the first half of the 19th century.

He returned to France and died in poverty.

From 1834 to 1839 he published his monumental series of three volumes of engravings, titled "Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Brésil, ou Séjour d'un Artiste Français au Brésil ", but it was not a commercial success.

Jean Baptiste Debret (1768 - 1848), the French painter and draughtsman, is considered to be the most faithful illustrator of 19th-century Brazil.

Witness "Even the most 'traditional' and remote communities are, like the rest of us, still living in the present. They are not throwbacks to the past, but simply one aspect of what it means to be human in the twenty first century." Merlyn Driver

Now there's a challenge.

grace kelly was just a nice looking girl, then. Nice is truly an understatement - nice as in the best copy on Earth nice... Not only pedigreed - for how could Adamstrange's collection by definition be anything other? - but also full of Grace.

Hi Joshua. She is, isn't she? She is a Kazakh. The Kazakhs are a semi-nomadic people from the mountains and valleys of western Mongolia, who worship the sky, the ancestors, fire and the supernatural forces of good and evil spirits.

“What you call dying is finally dying, and what you call birth is beginning to die, and what you call living is dying in life.” Francisco de Quevedo Next: Sting