Inside the Doc on Sebastiao Salgado's Amazing Life in Pictures

The first time Wim Wenders saw Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado's work — a haunting black and white portrait of workers toiling in the Amazon's Serra Pelada gold mine — he bought the print on the spot. Soon, he began collecting the artist's pictures, chasing down stills for sale and picking up books of the artist's work wherever he could find them. "Whenever I was asked in interviews who my favorite photographer was," the 69-year-old German filmmaker says, "I would tell people about Sebastião. He's able to create bonds with people by investing more than other photographers. He doesn't stay a day or two and get the heck out of there. He stays, and comes back a year later. He realizes these people expect him to come back, because they've become friends."