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Sebastião Salgado

1944 - Today

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Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sebastião Salgado has received more than 955,716 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Sebastião Salgado is the 7th most popular journalist (up from 9th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 36th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Journalist.

Sebastião Salgado is a photographer who has taken pictures of the human condition all over the world. His work is most famous for its depiction of the human condition, and the beauty of the natural world.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Sebastião Salgado ranks 7 out of 196. Before him are Robert Capa, Richard Sorge, Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, and Joseph Pulitzer. After him are Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, Dorothea Lange, and John Reed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Sebastião Salgado ranks 35. Before him are Rem Koolhaas, Diana Ross, Danny Trejo, Dietrich Mateschitz, Vojislav Koštunica, and Françoise Hardy. After him are Ulrich Beck, Luigi Riva, Yoweri Museveni, Helmut Berger, Ibrahim Rugova, and Robert Kardashian.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Sebastião Salgado ranks 35 out of 2,236. Before him are Maria II of Portugal (1819), Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887), Roberto Carlos (1973), Nelson Piquet (1952), and Nílton Santos (1925). After him are Rivaldo (1972), Neymar (1992), João Gilberto (1931), Bebeto (1964), Carlos Alberto Parreira (1943), and Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Brazil

Among journalists born in Brazil, Sebastião Salgado ranks 1. After him are Plínio Salgado (1895).

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