Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:25 PM 8/12/01 +0100, you wrote: >This is another interesting question that I was thinking about in relation >to Salgado, namely, his "real world" impact. Do his photos still appear in >magazines (i.e. in mass media publications) as they once did, or are they >now published exclusively in books produced by his own company and >exhibited in museums? If that is the case, it would seem that his influence >would be exercised mostly on the museum going, photo book buying public (in >other words, a relatively small portion of the population), and in that >case, as perhaps with Frank, I don't know, he would seem to be preaching to >the choir. > > >Guy But this is not Salgado's fault. All of the great mass media publications that featured documentary photography are gone. Salgado's work does appear in photography magazines and publication like "Mother Jones", but that is again preaching to the choir. The days of projects of documentary photographers being sponsored by mass media publications are long gone. Today, photographers have to make their own markets. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com