Sebastião Salgado in person, and his camera...

<p>Just bought my tickets today.. he'll be at the palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Looks like tickets are going very fast, but there are still some available for the front row seats, and private reception.<br>

<a href="http://www.fotovision.org/salgado/">here's the link.<br /> </a><br>

And for those that have VERY deep pockets, and love our planet as much as they love the titanium M7 kit....<br>

<a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/13/sebastiao-salgado-leica-m7-up-on-ebay/">there is this.</a></p>

<p>At least he could have gone out and shot a single roll of film with the camera. Bah. I hate phony collectibles, regardless of the charity.</p>

<p>yes, jim is right<br>

at least that way they could sell it as "the sebastiao salgado camera", and eventually justify the price tag ;)</p>

<p>"At least he could have gone out and shot a single roll of film with the camera. Bah. I hate phony collectibles, regardless of the charity."</p>

<p>Man, for that price, you should get TWO camera bodies.</p>

<p>It's more than a token gift for someone who wants to make a charitable donation to a good cause, so what's the problem?</p>

<p>Anyone who has $130,000 to give as a charitable contribution isn't going to care that the camera kit they get in return is $120,000 overpriced. Nobody is selling this as an investment and anyone who thinks it is is a fool.</p>

<p>The William Klein edition is the one I'd prefer...</p>

<p>http://mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/Leica/Leica-M6/M6-Special/M6-William_Klein2001/index.htm</p>

<p>is it possible that the eventual buyer knows little about cameras and leica for that matter. it is a token mechanical device to be shelved away in a display cabinet.</p>

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<p>The William Klein edition is the one I'd prefer...</p>

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<p>For a leica "special edition" that's actually a pretty cool looking camera. Not cool enough for me personally to pay the premium. But I do like the looks.</p>

<p>Wow, that's bad, Salgado is dumping his Leicas!</p>

<p>"that's bad, Salgado is dumping his Leicas!"</p>

<p>Haven't I read that he goes digital... partly to avoid having his films X-ray'ed at airports.</p>

<p>(phony excuse imho). </p>

<p>That would be about $1.30 a tree including the purchase of 100,000 trees, transportation, labor and of course compost, shovels etc. I figure there will be no takers on the camera myself. Seems like it should have actually have been his personal camera or at least engraved with his name or something.</p>

<p>I applaud his generosity, though it looks like he can get a better deal on the whole tree planting thing:<br>

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/ProductDetails.aspx?catalog=Unwrapped&product=OU3218AG</p>

 

<p>Well I can see that tree planting is much cheaper then I thought...I guess I was thinking of a tree I planted in my yard a few months ago. It cost about $100.00 before I was finished. But it is a 10ft tree. The Leica auction ended but I cannot determine if somebody purchased the camera or not. It just says the auction has ended. It would be interesting to see his presentation in San Francisco. He has always been a photographer that I admire. </p>

<p>Funny to see Salgado trying to plant trees while his Prez Lula Da Silva is CHOPPING down the Amazonian forest to grow genetically-modified soja...</p>

<p>Politics?</p>

<p>Fred O, do you know for sure that Salgado supports Lula Da Silva ...or are you just maliging a genuinely great photographer for some other reason...</p>

<p>...and, for that matter, is the destruction of the Amazonian forest due to Da Silva?</p>

<p>Doesn't that destruction have mostly to do with foreign markets..isn't it one of casualties of unreglated international free markets, like the dumping of toxic and nuke wastes offshore Somalia? </p>

<p>Amazonia is being destroyed by stripping land for farming by the poor. Local loggers and land barons also have a deliterious impact. The destruction does not have to do with foreign markets or unreglated international free markets.<br>

Sabastiao needs to be applauded for his work.</p>

<p>Always liked Salgado and have gone to several of his show. But $130K for that camera and charity trees??? No doubt it is well intentioned but I hope it comes with guarentees that the trees will actually get planted, legal verification that the site will be protected and access to an audit trail. I've seen a lot of tree planting / carbon offset scams.</p>

<p>One more word about Salgado : a friend of mine who lives in Paris just informed me that since Salgado is going digital he has just decided to sell to one photo gear shop a quite large amount of Leica lenses & cameras. <br>

The "funny" part is Salgado never paid for it in the 1st place cos it was GIVEN by Leica... (probably as part of an endorsement deal). Most of the gear is new, ununsed, since Seb probably never had a use for a large majority of the flood of stuff he was sent. <br>

This is very questionable on 2 levels : why hoard a piece of equipement you know you'll never use and why not politely return it to its maker? And how can you make money out of sth you never bougth in the 1st place...</p>

 

<p>He's been using Pentax 645N for the past couple years.</p>

<p>HI all,<br>

I have just interviewed him last Oct.22th, at the occasion of his exhibition "Africa" here in Tokyo, Africa. It was a 40min exclusive, thanks to his wife Lelia who decided to give a special space for Brazilian media here (where I work).<br>

I asked him about going digital. He said tri-x quality decreased over the years (much less silver, he said) so he had decided to work with 6x4,5 Pentax. The problem was, at each x-xay check at the airports (and he goes through a LOT of this for his work, several times each trip) he and his assistant had to take out eah one of the 600 rolls of 220 film so that it wouldn´t go through the x-ray machine. He also had to carry that bag of films with him in the plane, couldn´t check it. It was 25kg. So, there was a point he wanted to do something about that.<br>

So he continued, saying a friend brought up the digital option. And he used and loved it. NOw he works with Canon EOS 1 Mark III cameras. But the interesting thing is that, since "I can barely type in a computer", he said, he gets all the digital files printed like a contact sheet. He then edits and, to make the story short, have the chosen digital files processed into large 4x5inches B&W negatives (Tri-x???), and then have them printed as usual. So, at the end, he said, "nothing changed for me. But now that 25kg bag weights only 700grams", and gave us a big smile.<br>

By the way, his medium-format prints when enlarged 1,2meter wide (that´s what we see at this exhibition) are fabulous indeed. </p>

<p>p.s. about the 130k Leica... The camera itself is just a symbol. For their consciences, it symbolizes a good act that was done, a kind of 'cooperation' between the photographer, the maker and the buyer where everybody is happy. These people (all the involved parts)are no fools, know what they are doing.</p>

<p>p.s. 2 And of course, the other Leicas Salgado is told to have sold were HIS cameras (Leica gave/sold it to him), and of course again, Leica doesn´t need them. These kind of deals are not like the deals regular people do with in regular situations, or like presents with sentimental value we get from relatives. It´s another world.</p>

<p>(I´ve attached a couple of pics a co-worker took from us during this interview, so that I´ll save the time of those who might think I might be imagining things - which I sometimes do by the way).</p>

<p>Hope it helps. Best for all of u!</p><div></div>

<p>THanks for posting Ricardo. I went to the exhibition in Ebisu during the weekend. Is there somewhere I can find your full interview?<br />Best,<br>

Max Hodges </p>

<p>"The destruction does not have to do with foreign markets or unreglated international free markets."</p>

<p>If you really believe this you need to do some reading. One of the reasons these forests are being burned is to grow palm oil for international markets. Another is for beef farming for the US hamburger market.</p>