Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Steve Where is the exhibition, Im just down the road from Walsall in Great Barr. Thanks Jason - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:42 AM Subject: [Leica] Salgado > Yesterday I went to the Salgado 'Migration' exhibition in Walsall here in > the UK. > > All I can say to anyone who is able to go is, don't think twice, go! > Magnificent photographs. The exhibition was larger than I expected, maybe > 200 photographs. > > What really surprised me were the pictures of children that he took just to > keep them quiet. They are all placed together along two walls in one of the > rooms. I told myself that I shouldn't like them, that they were just closely > cropped portraits that showed very little of the context in which they were > taken. But I was won over, they were incredibly moving photographs. > > The exhibition is on until early June - I don't know if it's touring after > that - admission is free. > > > Steve > >