[Leica] OKCLUG Goes To Salgado Movie

[Peter Dzwig]

I wonder about that too, Bob. I guess it may be due to the printers.

So a question to LUGers, who is the best printer out there at the moment?
Obviously it depends on taste to some degreee, but I have been looking back at
AA, HCB and others and I can't find a similar depth in modern digital stuff by
and large.

Thoughts?

Peter

On 02/05/2015 16:17, Robert Baron wrote:
> 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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>>
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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
>>> 023 8046 3076
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>
>>
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