Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This sounds more like a testament to his power. Ric Carter On Dec 5, 2005, at 4:08 PM, pmcc wrote: > I agree that Salgado's work is the work of a master. > That said, to my mind his exhibitions also have the > a feeling I can only describe as one of ponderous > monumentality, like watching a made-for-IMAX movie. > This reinforces his narrative, but also leaves me with > > the feeling that the viewer is not left much room to > process her own reactions or make independent > judgments. > It feels more like advertising than classic > documentary > work, more tendentious than revelatory. His narrative > content tends to focus on big ideas, not on individual > > stories. One doesn't get the feeling that his > subjects > are much by way of individual beings to Salgado, that > they may have dimensions to their lives beyond mass > suffering. > To my mind he also needs to be much more ruthless in > his > editing. Epic scope and scale plus overwhelming > volume > can actually blot out the complexity and nuance of > human > elements; it can certainly fatigue and overload. > > PMCC. > SF, CA > > NO ARCHIVE > > --- David Cochran <cochranpr@mac.com> wrote: > >> A few years back I saw the end of a documentary on >> Salgado qhere he was interviewed. His photos of >> children came to be as a fluque. When he visited the >> diferent countries to shoot his documentary photos, >> children would come to him pestering to be >> photographed. He would try to brush them off until >> he decided that the best strategy was to take the >> pictures so they leave him be. As it happens, his >> children photographs were the ones that got much >> attention. So usualy, I think, his children >> photographs are from more willing subjects. His >> photos being staged, hard to beleive. >> >> >> peace >> On Monday, December 05, 2005, at 04:37AM, Bill Smith >> <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Gerry: >>> >>> I guess the only thing I could say critical about >> some of his work ( I saw 173 in this showing) is >> that I had this strange feeling that it was "staged" >> or "choreographed". I hate to say that, but can >> anyone be that lucky/ talented to get those shots? >> On the other hand, maybe he just shot a ton of film. >> Who knows. Only Salgado I guess. But that doesn't >> take anything away from the impact of the images. >>> >>> Maybe he's a Breeson with a highly refined social >> conscience or is that pure blasphemy on LUG? >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> >>> >>> Gerry Walden <gwpics@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On 05/12/05, Bill Smith wrote: >>>> Yesterday I had the priviledge to see a rather >> extensive showing of Salgado's work in a suburb of >> Seoul, Korea. To say I was overwhelmed is an >> understatement. His sensitivity to the poor human >> condition of some and indeed suffering on several >> continents and ability to record it on film (?) on >> powerful portraits are amazing. >>>> >>>> I will never forget many of those haunting >> images. >>>> >>>> Bill >>> >>> I am sure that is the same exhibition I saw in >> Paris a couple of years >>> ago and the work is fabulous, and I don't mind >> admitting that some of >>> the images bought tears to my eyes for their >> beauty. And I think that >>> is one of the problems with Salgados work - he has >> the ability to take >>> a poor child on the edge of starvation and elevate >> the image to a work >>> of art. Having said that, I don't want to decry >> from his work in any >>> way what so ever. For me he is probably the >> greatest living >>> photographer with a very strong humanitarian >> message and fantastic >>> prints which have to be icons of their time. I have >> one hanging on my >>> wall (a mere reproduction I am afraid) as i type >> this, and it brings >>> me a mixture of pleasure and pain every single time >> I look at it. >>> >>> Gerry >>> >>> -- >>> Gerry Walden LBPPA >>> Web: www.gwpics.com >>> Stock: www.digitalrailroad.net >>> Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 3076 > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information