Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]100% agree! I have visited in Barcelona the Genesis exhibition with Nathan and with Lars and a friend, and we have shared the same opinion. Cheers Lluis El 27/07/2015, a les 17.40, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> va escriure: > Workers, Migration and Sahel are all well worth getting (though any one > will probably do), but be warned that they are all heartbreaking (and > monotonous in large doses!) in their own way, for the most part a > relentless, unending documentation of human misery. Even the "pretty" shots > have a very dark undercurrent to them (drought, exploitation, death). > Remember, my viewpoint may be different, as I can walk a kilometre from my > house and see comparable scenes. > > I would stay away from Genesis, too over processed to accentuate the > dramatic, though the book looks better than the prints in the show did. > Unfortunate, as, IMHO, this is, in many ways, the most uplifting series > that he has done. > > I look at his pictures rather like I used to read Art Buchwald, in smallish > doses. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at > gmail.com> > wrote: > >> watching now the film about Salgado, Salt of the Earth. >> >> extremely moving, incredible (no surprise) images. >> >> of his books I wish to obtain 2 or 3 of his very best from a purely >> photographic pov >> >> your thoughts please? >> >> thank you >> >> steve >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> Steve Barbour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information