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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe)
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Oct 4 21:45:53 2006
References: <C145DA74.1640E%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

Yes, but:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/salgado/story/0,,1301926,00.html#article_continue
so we are both right. He was employed by the coffee organization, but 
there was a World Bank connection as well on that particular trip.

Nathan

B. D. Colen wrote:
> http://unews.utah.edu/p/?r=031006-47
>
>
> On 10/1/06 8:00 PM, "Anders Nygren" <anders.nygren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> A long time ago Nathan wrote:
>>
>> "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."
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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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