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Tuna Fishing, Trapani, Sicily, Italy by Sebastião Salgado — VisualArtsDB

Tuna Fishing, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

Tuna Fishing, Trapani, Sicily, Italy

Sebastião Salgado

1991

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 17 7/16 in. (29.85 x 44.29 cm) (image) 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.48 x 50.48 cm) (sheet)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Approximately 1,500 miles long, the Juruá River is one of the Amazon’s longest tributaries. Amazonia. Brazil.

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Group portrait of all the Kamayura shamans. Upper Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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