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

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Subject: Re: Salgado's "Terra" more technically advAnced
From: creadick@mindspring.com (Nowell Creadick)
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:02:12 -0400 (EDT)

To me, in general, the "Terra" photographs were noticeably sharper and more
detailed than the "Worker" photos. It seemed quite obvious to me.

>Not sure what you mean by "more technically advanced." Many of the photos
>in "Terra" are of early- and mid-1980s vintage, and have been published
>before in "Other Americas" and "Workers." The images after page 80 are all
>from 1996. Other than some pictures obviously shot on T-Max 3200, it's
>pretty hard (for me, anyway) to identify a particular picture as being shot
>with newer lenses, or having some other clue to being of recent vintage.
>
>Chuck Albertson
>Seattle, Washington
>
>
>At 04:43 PM 9/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>Thank you for raising this question...I have been very curious about this.
>>I saw Terra right next to Workers and the Terra images were much more
>>technically advanced in my opinion.  Do you think this was technique or
>>newer lenses or both?
>>