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Subject: [Leica] Salgado' s work
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Dec 7 21:46:34 2005
References: <BFBB4AAE.9470%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Salgado was working for the World Bank, as far as I remember, and it was 
during one of the trips he made on behalf of the bank that he started 
photographing what he saw. You do not get rich by working for the World 
Bank, and economists generally are not that well paid, except the few 
Nobel-winning stars and the snake-oil merchants on Wall Street. So I am 
sure that Salgado made the right career choice (for him!) also from the 
point of view of personal finance.

Nathan

B. D. Colen wrote:
> There are plenty of economists who are hardly 'well off.' If I'm not
> mistaken he was involved with a coffee growers cooperative, or something
> similar. And he took up photography because he was convinced -foolishly I'd
> say - that he could do more to fight global economic inequity with his
> photographs than he could as an economist. While I think he's a brilliant
> photographer, I think his view of the power of photography's horse shit. 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> On 12/6/05 1:50 PM, "feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I think Salgado may actaully have been fairly well off, when he started to
>>shoot.
>>He's an economist, by profession and left the field to take pictures.
>>;-)
>>
>>feli
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
>>
>>Hi Slobodan,
>>
>>I'd almost put money on the table he's received financial support of some
>>kind to use other than the Leica.
>>
>>ted
>>
>>
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>>www.elanphotos.com
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