[Leica] salgado

[Peter Dzwig]

...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
>>>
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