[Leica] OKCLUG Goes To Salgado Movie

[Peter Dzwig]

Jayanand,

I was there too - I think I may have posted here about my reaction: impressive,
but the quality of the printing left masses to be desired.

Peter

On 02/05/2015 03:41, Jayanand Govindaraj 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.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Salt of the Earth opened in Oklahoma City this afternoon.  Ken Carney
>> and I were 50% of the first showing's audience.
>>
>> Nonetheless, we highly recommend it.  It is not 'pretty' in that he
>> photographed a great deal of the worst of humanity and many of those
>> photographs are displayed in their full awful beauty, but the filmmakers
>> (Wim Wenders and Salgado's son Juliano) try to leave you on a somewhat
>> hopeful note.
>>
>> Even if they succeeded generally I am still not hopeful I'll ever be able
>> to produce images with that tonal range and d-max.  Even if I buy better
>> cameras.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
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