"All my work is linked together like different chapters of the same story," photographer Sebastião Salgado once commented. That story is a major chronicle of the world's dispossessed, captured in black and white, and told with compelling drama, realism, and even beauty. As a critic for Contemporary Photographers noted, "The eternally triangular relationship between photographer, subject and viewer is one that Salgado has subverted. . . . Not since the heyday of photojournalism [in the mid-twentieth century] . . . has there been a photographer who has so single-mindedly and single-handedly insisted on presenting his work not as individual portraits but as a series that tells a story." Salgado has mounted major exhibitions around the themes of poverty, work, and displacement in the Third World--that eighty-five percent of the globe where people still endure a pre-industrial standard of living. His major exhibitions examine various aspects of international dislocations. Sahel, Man in Distress...