Re: [Leica] Salgado

["Jason Hall" <JASON@jbhall.freeserve.co.uk>]

I found the gallery and spent a couple of hours there this afternoon.

I can only echo Steve's comments, well worth going, and the room of
childrens portraits really works for me but then I liked the ones that
where included in Terra as well.  Technically I was very impressed
with how much detail the big enlargements retained, my prints from
400ASA tend get very mushy at that size.  Some of the prints where not
mounted very well though which is a shame, the paper was not flat
behind the glass.

Jason Hall

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Salgado


> It's at the new art gallery in the centre (sorry don't know the
proper
> name).
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jason
Hall
> Sent: 26 April 2001 12:32
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
>
>
> Hi Steve
>
> Where is the exhibition, Im just down the road from Walsall in Great
> Barr.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:42 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Salgado
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>