Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01

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Subject: Re:off topic/my opinion on Salgado "Terra"
From: "Lucien_vD@compuserve.com" <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 07:08:08 -0400

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