Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are plenty of economists who are hardly 'well off.' If I'm not mistaken he was involved with a coffee growers cooperative, or something similar. And he took up photography because he was convinced -foolishly I'd say - that he could do more to fight global economic inequity with his photographs than he could as an economist. While I think he's a brilliant photographer, I think his view of the power of photography's horse shit. ;-) On 12/6/05 1:50 PM, "feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > I think Salgado may actaully have been fairly well off, when he started to > shoot. > He's an economist, by profession and left the field to take pictures. > ;-) > > feli > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> > > Hi Slobodan, > > I'd almost put money on the table he's received financial support of some > kind to use other than the Leica. > > ted > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Feli di Giorgio feli2@earthlink.net > www.elanphotos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information