Sebastião Salgado. Gold, Art Edition, Brasil 1986 (English) (AP)

For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s gold rush is merely the stuff of legend, kept alive by a few happy memories, many pained regrets—and Sebastião Salgado’s photographs. This signed edition gathers his black-and-white portfolio in grand-scale, museum-quality reproductions.

The accompanying signed print encapsulates the sheer scale and nightmarish theater of the open-cast mine—a stark encounter with one of Salgado’s most important historical documents.

Art Edition (No. 1–100), with the gelatin silver print Brasil, 1986, each signed by Sebastião Salgado.