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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe)
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sun Oct 1 14:47:42 2006
References: <C145ACDC.163D3%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

On Oct 1, 2006, at 2:35 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> Not to beat a dead horse - ah, what the hell, they can't bite or  
> kick ;-) -
> but what major documentarian hasn't done commissioned work of one  
> kind or
> another? Good God, Eugene Richards has done ad campaigns for Nike  
> and Levis,
> Mary Ellen Mark regularly does commercial work, and on and on. And  
> perhaps
> I'm delusional at this point on a rainy Sunday, but wasn't Salgado an
> economist with some sort of Latin America coffee growers  
> cooperative or some
> such?

  I seem to recall Salgado being trained in economy in Paris well  
before he ever ventured into photography...


Steve
>
>
>
>
> On 10/1/06 5:03 PM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Philippe
>>
>> I had a Nespresso machine in my office before Amici Caff?/Illy  
>> became my
>> client. I got a X1 espresso machine and a few kg of coffee beans.  
>> I have given
>> away the Nespresso machine as well as about 200 capsules of  
>> coffee, for free
>> and without regrets. Nespresso is at least three floors below  
>> Illy. It's like
>> comparing a a 1999 Rioja Conde de Valdemar (certainly a fine all  
>> day red
>> wine), to a 1979 Ch?teau Mouton-Rothschild Grand Cru Class?.
>>
>> The Amici (swiss illy) website I've recently created is in french,  
>> too, find
>> some interesting articles about how illy is:
>>
>> -handling the production of coffee*:
>> http://tinyurl.com/j8fhk
>>
>> -tasting Coffee*:
>> http://tinyurl.com/m5ckk
>>
>> -selectioning the raw goods:
>> http://tinyurl.com/gg9hl
>>
>> -practising "Commerce ?quitable":
>> http://tinyurl.com/f95zw
>>
>> (*flash player required)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Didier
>>
>>
>>> This one ain't bad either:
>>> http://www.nespresso.com/precom/n_home_be_en.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
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