Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luiz Marinho wrote: >I'm really shocked as a Brazilian and a Pro Photographer, I agree >Sebastiao Salgado is a Great photographer, the best I've seen in my life= , >but when I read that text I got very angry... =2E.. <snip> =2E.. >Salgado did I big mistake in my opinion, he turned his work in a politic= al >weapon, to fight in a political world... Photography don't need politica= l >explanations... need good images to explain by itself... The book "terra= " >don't need that "fair-tale" to be a great book... The photographer in my= >opinion should be the wittness not the judge... = I don't agre with that. I don't see why a photographer has less right than somebody else to expre= ss political vue. Even if some don't like it, free speach must be a right for everybody, ev= en the photographer. (Except for some matters the majority agree it's wrong as pedophilia, murder apology etc..) And you are totally free to desagree as I am. Regarding Brazil, by the fiew that I know, I don't think its is paradize = on earth for everybody, and I'm not a specialist. But I don't think that what earn a policeman is a justification for anything at all. Whit that kind of argument you can justify any attitude. = Regards, Lucien BELGIUM