Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Klein wrote: >Salgado is a darling of the cult of the Third World, >Oppression, and the Downtrodden. This sometimes blinds viewers to the fact >that he often magnifies simple tragic scenes of life into Wagnerian >proportions that have nothing to do with the lives of the people he is >portraying. He's got a perfect right to do this, both for artistic >reasons, and to evoke well-deserved empathy for his subjects. But >something about it sets off my internal critic that says, "careful, you're >being manipulated." EVERY time you view a picture you are seeing the photographers version of reality. Every time you feel and/or react to a picture you are manipulated. A photograph that says nothing or is without some real value or comment is just more visual clutter, the eye candy we see so much of in popular magazines. Henry