[Leica] OKCLUG Goes To Salgado Movie

[Robert Baron]

What you all say about his images and prints is valid for discussion, but I
still can't figure out how he (or people working for him) can get such wide
tonal ranges and I can't.

Is it an optical illusion?

--Bob

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw Genesis in Barcelona in January together with Lluis and my friend
> Lars, and we too were somewhat disappointed. Partly there was the issue of
> the prints being overdone, but my main gripe was the lack of a coherent
> theme—the exhibition is simply too big—and the distance to his subjects. In
> many cases, his approach to the people in the photographs is that of a
> wildlife photographer. Compared to other major bodies of work by Salgado,
> like “Workers”, I found this one below his usual standard.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
>
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> > On 02 May 2015, at 07:31, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:
> >
> > I haven’t seen the film, nor had I heard of it until now but I did see
> the ‘Genesis’ show in Barcelona last year and was simply stunned by the
> imagery and quality of the printing. In my eyes the man is probably about
> the best living photographer at the moment for so many reasons, and I saw
> gazing at prints in sheer awe of his work.
> >
> > Gerry
> >
> > Gerry Walden
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> >
> >> On 2 May 2015, at 04:27, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> His flair for the dramatic is discussed in this long piece published in
> The
> >> Guardian in 2000:
> >>
> >> http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2000/jun/10/photography.art
> >>
> >> I don't think a DVD of Salt of the Earth is available yet but I'd be
> >> surprised if it didn't come out in due time.
> >>
> >> ====On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <
> jayanand at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I would like to buy the DVD. I went to his "Genesis" show in London a
> >>> couple of years ago, and was frankly underwhelmed by the prints - they
> were
> >>> totally over processed, and in my view, mangled beyond reason for
> maximum
> >>> drama.
> >>>
>
>