Re: [Leica] Salgado - Simply The Best?? Talk amongst yourselves

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Seriously....

Is Sabastio Salgado, from an artistic/technical standpoint, The Best
documentary photographer/photojournalist alive today. Is he, perhaps, by
the same standards, the best Ever?

B. D.
and Dr. Blacktape



Bob Walkden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I went to see it in Brussels on Saturday.
> 
> He's God, that's how he drums up the mist and haze. Either that or he
> shoots into the light quite early in the morning. In many cases it's
> not mist or haze, but fires - his subjects don't usually have gas or
> electricity to cook by. Outside the large towns in Africa, and I
> assume elsewhere, it's quite normal in my experience for people to have
> a small fire going outside their home all the time for cooking and
> heating water. In Ethiopia this is often in a metal container thing
> which they can carry from place to place. This is why you see so many
> women bent double, crippling themselves carrying enormous bundles of
> firewood. In some areas there are also a lot of charcoal burners on the
> go permanently.
> 
> Imo the skies are not dark enough to be red-filtered. I think he
> shoots without filtered and burns in in the darkroom.
> 
> ---
> 
>  Bob
> 
> mailto:bob@web-options.com
> 
> Wednesday, August 01, 2001, 5:19:37 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > I just got back from visiting the Sebastião Salgado "Migrations" exhibit at
> > the ICP. It made me feel very very humble. I expected great but not soooo
> > great! If at all possible try to see it if you have not yet done so.
> 
> > The thing I don't know is how he always manages to drum up some haze or mist
> > in the distance.
> 
> > Brent Dorsett --- NYC