Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Bushmen women collecting caterpillars in the Kalahari Desert. Botswana, Africa, 2008

Gelatin silver print, printed circa 2008, copyright credit blindstamp in the margin; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

image: 14 5/8 x 20in. (37.1 x 50.8cm.) sheet: 20 x 24in. (50.8 x 61cm.)

Neutral toned print on semi-gloss double-weight paper, with margins. A beautiful print in excellent condition. Sold unframed. Mat: 24 x 30 inches.

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Ms. Paterson joined Hindman in 2022 and is a nearly 30-year veteran of the photography industry. She began her career in the Photographs Department at Christie’s in New York, and spent 20 years at the auction house becoming a Senior Specialist. Subsequently, she worked at Magnum Photos New York (a prestigious photojournalism collective founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947) as US Cultural and Print Sales Director and Bonhams as Head of the Photographs Department. Ms. Paterson has extensive knowledge of photography from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a particular interest in works of the American West by Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams.

Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams

Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Bushmen women collecting caterpillars in the Kalahari Desert. Botswana, Africa, 2008

Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams

Sebastião Salgado(born 1944)Bushmen women collecting caterpillars in the Kalahari Desert. Botswana, Africa, 2008

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Sebastião Salgado
(born 1944)
Bushmen women collecting caterpillars in the Kalahari Desert. Botswana, Africa, 2008