Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
From: Guy Bennett <2bennett@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:08:30 +0100
 
>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.
>[snip]
>Henry


Quite true.

And thank you for saying so.


Guy