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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Salgado Revisted
From: George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:32:01 -0600

bdcolen@earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)2/12/026:58 PM

> I would argue that Salgado is not a propagandist, but a 
> documentarian who
> chooses his particular subjects because he wants to effect 
> change, and
> believes that by making others aware of the plight of those 
> whose lives he
> documents, he may eventually help to bring about that change. 

Absolutely agree. 

> There is
> simply no way to equate that with the work of a Leni 
> Riefenstal, who was not
> documenting anything, but was gathering images of carefully 
> constructed
> scenes to mold into propaganda designed to portray an evil as a 
> good.

God forgive me if I left an impression that I was "equating" the
working methods, motivations or desired outcomes of Leni and
Salgado. NO NO NO. I didn't say or intend to infer any such idea.


George


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