[Leica] salgado

[Lluis Ripoll]

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
>> 
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