Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:11:16 -0500

It really is pretty pathetic. But it has its value because it brings all the
like-minded trolls out from under the bridge and into the light of day. ;-)

In terms of what Salgado donates...He donates his family life, as he is on
the road for months and months at a time and therefore misses seeing his
children grow up, to say nothing of time he would otherwise spend with his
wife and friends. He travels throughout the "third world" by public
transportation and lives under the worst of conditions. In short, he walks
the walk.

All of that is, however, really quite irrelevant. Regardless of his
politics, his donations, he political goals, or his economic world-view,
Sabastio Salgado is a truly gifted photographer and documentarian, whose
work is documenting the lives of the truly poor and the ways that he
believes their existence is being shaped by larger economic trends beyond
their control. He documents poverty overseas just at Eugene Richards
documents it in this country - but Salgado is, of course, a vastly superior
photographer from a technical standpoint. He documents poverty just as Donna
Ferrato (sp?) documents domestic violence, or just as Walker Evans
documented the lives of tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta in the
1930s. He does what documentary photographers do. And that has always
angered the selfishly comfortable.

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve
Unsworth
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:44 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16


Do you know how much Salgado donates to causes? No, I didn't think so.

This is just about the worst troll I've ever seen on the LUG.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mike Gil
Sent: 12 February 2002 23:28
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Salgado to speak in Seattle Feb 16


It's always interesting how socialist or non-classical
liberals always wants everybodies money except there
own to go to a cause.  Why does Salgado not give his
$1500 M camera and $1800 35mm ASPH 1.4 to his starving
and needy subjects.  He can easly buy a Pentax MX for
$200 plus a 35mm for less than a $100 and shoot with
that.

I think its hard to feel compassion when your hiding
behind $3500 worth of equipment plus whats in your
bag.
mike


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