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Subject: [Leica] Salgado' s work
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Dec 6 11:13:42 2005

I'm well aware of that belief, Douglas - I still think that it's sad that a
photographer who has made such a contribution in terms of his ability
capture the sad state of the human condition in so much of the world has
turned to photographing primates.


On 12/6/05 2:08 PM, "Douglas Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

> B.D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Well isn't it sad that he didn't think people were important enough for
>> larger format - but monkeys are.
> 
> If you were to read the interviews with Salgado in the link that Jayanand
> posted
> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/salgado/story/0,15021,1301861,00.html
> 
> it seems that Salgado doesn't believe that 'monkeys' are more important 
> than
> people.  It's more like he's finding common ground among people and 
> non-human
> life and that the earth as the foundation for all life is of primary
> importance.
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
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