[Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee OT a bit

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Chris Saganich offered:
Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee OT a bit

Chris,
Salgado would be smiling all the way to the bank without the kind of 
feelings you experince. He smiling doesn't make it right, but it does make 
him feel much better as he's photographing the down trodden peoples of the 
world.

ted

> So I happened to be wondering through the Time-Warner mall at Columbus 
> Circle last week when I spied a lot of giant Salgado prints on display, 
> (he once used a Leica).  On each image there was a small caption about the 
> image and a plug for Illy, which I had never heard of before.  I assumed 
> Illy was some group sponsoring the exhibit.  At the conclusion of the 
> exhibit there was a coffee bar, an Illy coffee bar.  I was unhappy to 
> realize the whole thing was a PR campaign.  Now the question shot into my 
> mind...is this right?  I looked around at the mall and the shops and all 
> the people sipping the Illy coffee and then at the Salgado prints again 
> and the prints became reduced to corporate PR and I was angry.  Flame me 
> all you want but I realized two things - consumption has replaced 
> democracy, and the image is the driving force behind consumption.  It's 
> all so rude.
>
> Chris Saganich - not happy with the world these days.
>
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