[Leica] OKCLUG Goes To Salgado Movie

[Ken Carney]

Well, I have yet to see a digital print that matched the range of 
Ansel's.  This is looking at gallery prints - they all seem to have 
issues when reproduced in a book, etc.   The new Epson P800 is a 17" 
printer that is supposed to have significantly improved blacks (plus a 
400-year print life, something we all need).  If so I may buy one and 
keep my 3880 for color.

Ken

On 5/2/2015 6:21 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> Alicante, Spain
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>>>
>>> YNWA
>>>
>>>> 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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