RE: [Leica] Salgado

["Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>]

Well, I've read the reviews of the book and most of them agreed with what
you say. But I think the portraits were enhanced by having them all on one
wall rather than each on an individual page. The whole being greater than
the sum of the parts as it were.

And yes, from a technical point of view they are excellent.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: 26 April 2001 14:44
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado


Steve Unsworth wrote:
>
> Yesterday I went to the Salgado 'Migration' exhibition in Walsall here in
> the UK.
>
> All I can say to anyone who is able to go is, don't think twice, go!
> Magnificent photographs. The exhibition was larger than I expected, maybe
> 200 photographs.
>
> What really surprised me were the pictures of children that he took just
to
> keep them quiet. They are all placed together along two walls in one of
the
> rooms. I told myself that I shouldn't like them, that they were just
closely
> cropped portraits that showed very little of the context in which they
were
> taken. But I was won over, they were incredibly moving photographs.
>
> The exhibition is on until early June - I don't know if it's touring after
> that -  admission is free.
>
> Steve

Hi, Steve - As a Salgado "fan," and one who thinks the Migration work
is, on the whole, stunning - I've only seen the book thus far - I have
to say I was really disappointed by the Children book. I suspect that if
you didn't know what the photos were - part of the Migrations project -
you might not find them nearly as moving. To me any, because they so
lack context, they are simply technically excellent photos of children.

Best,

B. D.