Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]...and FWIW I agree with them. Genesis is much too over-produced. Peter On 27/07/2015 18:20, Lluis Ripoll wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig