Other Americas, originally published in France in 1986 and designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado, is Sebastião Salgado’s first book. Upon publication it became an award winning photobook classic, establishing Salgado’s reputation as the visionary reportage photographer of his generation. With forty-nine black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1984, Salgado’s distilled survey of a continent includes images from Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. The images range in subject, capturing spiritual and religious practices, changing rural landscapes, and intimate domestic life. Each photograph shares a sense of sincere connection-connection between the subject and the photographer, between a population and their homeland, and between Salgado and the audience he seeks to engage. In his text, Alan Riding writes, “Salgado has sought out a lost corner of the Americas and he has made it a prism through which the entire continent can be viewed. A philosophy of life is caught in a look; an entire way of life is frozen in a moment . . .”

《其他美洲国家》最初于1986年在法国出版，由Lélia Wanick Salgado设计，是塞巴斯蒂安-萨尔加多的第一本书。一经出版，它就成为获奖的经典摄影书，确立了萨尔加多作为他那一代有远见的报告摄影家的声誉。萨尔加多在1977年至1984年间拍摄了49张黑白照片，对一个大陆进行了精炼的调查，包括来自巴西、厄瓜多尔、玻利维亚、秘鲁、危地马拉和墨西哥的图像。这些照片的主题范围很广，捕捉到了精神和宗教活动、不断变化的农村景观和亲密的家庭生活。每张照片都有一种真诚的联系--主题和摄影师之间的联系，人口和他们的祖国之间的联系，以及萨尔加多和他试图吸引的观众之间的联系。艾伦-里丁在他的文章中写道："萨尔加多已经找到了美洲的一个失落的角落，他使它成为一个棱镜，通过它可以看到整个大陆。一种生活哲学被捕捉到了，整个生活方式被冻结在一个瞬间......"。. ."