[Leica] salgado

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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
>
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