Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mrabiner@concentric.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] beauty > > I'm into beauty. If that translates into "pretty pictures" then there's no > avoiding it. > Pretty people, pretty scenes. In a lot of ways perhaps I'm not real deep. > Mark Rabiner > Mark, One of the criticisms I've heard about Salgado is that he creates something 'beautiful' out of something that quite horrific. The link that a lot of people make between 'beauty' and 'pretty' can be confusing. On one level Salagado's stuff is beautiful - beautifully printed, shot, composed etc etc - yet I think that there is always horror lurking. Julian