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205Leica R6Sebasti%u00e3o SalgadoSebasti%u00e3o Salgado (1944%u20132025) was one of the most influential documentary photographers of the late20th and early 21st centuries. His major photographic projects, including Workers, Migrations, Genesis and Amaz%u00f4nia, have been exhibited and published throughout the world. This Leica R6 no.1747647 was personally used by Salgado during his celebrated photographic coverage of the burning oil fields of Kuwait in 1991.Together with the Leica Macro-Elmarit-R 2.8/60 mm no. 3390243, it was used for a large part of the photographs from this extraordinary series, depicting the firefighters battling the oil well fires set by retreatingIraqi forces. The Kuwait photographs were firstpublished in The New York Times Magazine in 1991 and earned Salgado his second Leica Oskar Barnack Award the following year. The series later became an important part of his Workers project and was published as a dedicated monograph, Kuwait: A Desert on Fire, in 2016. Following Salgado%u2019s return from Kuwait, the camera was overhauled and repaired by Leica and subsequently exhibited at the Leica Gallery and Leica Museum in Solms. Its history and serial number were already documented when the camera was previouslyoffered at auction in 2005. Included with this exceptionalensemble are two original gelatin silver prints, measuring40%u00d7 50cm, personally signed by Sebasti%u00e3o Salgadoand bearing the photographer%u2019s blind stamp, together with a copy of the limited edition book Workers, Artist%u2019s Proof No. 7 of only 30 copies, containing numerous photographs made in Kuwait in 1991. A remarkable and exceptionally well-documented camera directly connected with one of Sebasti%u00e3o Salgado%u2019s most important photographic series and one of the definingbodies of documentary photography of the late twentieth century.Starting price: %u20ac 14.000*Estimate: %u20ac 28.000%u2013 32.000Serial no.:1747647Year of production: 1988Condition: B