Camera finds heroism in manual labor Madison show features the work of globetrotter Sebastiao Salgado; If you go What: "Workers, an Archaeology of the Industrial Age: Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado." When: through April 6. Where: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., Madison. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission: free. Information: (608) 263-2246.

Walking through Sebastiao Salgado's vast array of black-and-white images at the Elvehjem Museum of Art here is like wandering the world watching people at work.

That is what Salgado has been doing for the past decade: recording how the Earth's ordinary folk earn a living, and the gradual decline of manual labor.

Salgado, a supreme master of the 35mm format, is an epic melodramatist with a poet's flair for nuance. His compositions are realized on a massive scale, globally and personally. The prints, greatly blown up from the 24-by-36mm frame, capitalize on the small format's…