Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01

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Subject: RE: off topic/my opinion on Salgado "Terra"
From: "Garbutt, Robert" <RGarbutt@ncrpexec.telstra.com.au>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 17:03:00 +1000

Luiz,

Sometimes your grammar is not correct but your meaning is still very
clear.  I'm envious that you can communicate in more than one language.
This must make for a very rich experience of life.  English grammar is
very hard to learn.   I am glad I grew up with it and don't have to
explain it to anyone else.

Regarding Salgado,  he certainly has a strong viewpoint and strongly
held views are strong but not necessarily right.  However, behind every
photograph is a person taking a photo.  And in that person are
perceptions and beliefs that select the subject and exclude many things
from the subject's context.  These exclusions make the political
statement as much as the inclusions.

There is no photo as far as I am concerned that is a dispassionate
witness of events and does not judge. Framing a shot is an act of
judgement.   And that is my strongly held belief.

Regards,
Rob.
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 >  From: Luiz Otavio Marinho
 >  To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
 >  Subject: off topic/my opinion on Salgado "Terra"
 >  Date: Monday, 1 September 1997 1:11PM
 >
 >   I don=B4t have a very good english but I hope you understand my
opinion...

 >  (snip)

 >   Salgado did I big mistake in my opinion, he turned his work in a
political
 >  weapon, to fight in a political world... Photography don=B4t need
political
 >  explanations... need good images to explain by itself... The book
"terra"
 >  don=B4t need that "fair-tale" to be a great book... The =
photographer
in my
 >  opinion should be the wittness not the judge...