Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian, 1944- One of the most important figures in contemporary documentary photography, Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was born and raised in the provincial town of Aimores, Minas Gerais, and educated in economics at São Paulo University. He bought his first camera, a Pentax, in 1970 while completing his doctorate in agricultural economy at the Sorbonne in Paris. One year later