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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe)
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Oct 1 14:56:02 2006

I know he's an economist, but I believe that he was doing work with a coffee
cooperative of some sort, borrowed his wife's camera when he went on trip,
and the rest is history.;-)


On 10/1/06 5:47 PM, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:

> 
> 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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Replies: Reply from anders.nygren at gmail.com (Anders Nygren) ([Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe))
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