preston_merchant Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 http://www.time.com/time/2002/salgado/1.html Shot for Medicins San Frontiere in Angola. I'm a big fan of SS, but found these shots to be rather perfunctory. Worth a look anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackflesher Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 Preston: Thanks for the link as I too am a big fan of SS. A few of these shots were in his exhibition in Berkeley, and I can tell you they looked a *lot* better blown to 16 or 20x and hung on the wall than they do on my computer! Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_fong1 Posted July 25, 2002 Share Posted July 25, 2002 Photo number 5 reminds me of a similar but immensely more powerful one by the same photographer taken during the Ethiopian famine many years back. It burns into my mind, an image i will probably not forget. This one is less so only because the previous one is so heart renching. Photo number 12 or 16 will likely be the poster for the current drive for aids to relieve famine in southern Africa. Bring tears to my eyes. Perfunctory? Not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 Preston, Thanks for helping to bring about my first real introduction to Salgado's work, of which I had had only a vague awareness. I don't know what to say at this point, other than that I am awestruck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preston_merchant Posted July 26, 2002 Author Share Posted July 26, 2002 If you like his Angola shots, you will love his work on the campaign, under UN auspices, to eradicate polio. See www.endofpolio.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadji_singh Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 I don't agree that with the "perfunctory" description. I think that they are very good photos -- maybe not on par with some of his more stronger work, but good nonetheless. Though one thing about the photos that really bothered me (and it's no fault of Salgado), but I think the JPEGs are god-awful. In most photos there is visible JPEG artifacts, the contrast seems off, and they seem a bit soft focus-wise. I see a lot of the same problems with the photos on the NG website. They really should hire a new production artists for these websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preston_merchant Posted July 26, 2002 Author Share Posted July 26, 2002 I'm happy to have my initial opinion challenged. As an epic photographer, Salgado often passes on moments of intimacy and real human engagement in favor of the grand sweep of the issues he addresses--which is fine when you see his large books and consider the hundreds of photographs as a whole. In a short series, as a viewer I am interested in something more intimate. It's hard to decribe, of course. I wonder what the rest of the shots from this series (the ones not published on the Time website) look like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 The photo here with the boy standing at his mother's bedside is, oh my, no words to describe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted July 26, 2002 Share Posted July 26, 2002 Correction- on second look I suppose the boy is kneeling, and of course, it's not a bed but a cot. These images force you to evaluate your own place in the world. I've got to take a look at the rest of his work, most certainly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david www.davidazia.com Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 When I was Paris three weeks ago, I saw many posters publicising the situation in Angola, with photographs by Salgado. Many months ago, Salgado was also interviewed by France Inter (a radio station) concerning the famine situation in Angola, which he has witnessed and documented. Whatever you may think of these photographs, they do bring attention to the situation in Angola - which is an essential and integral part of Salgado's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted July 28, 2002 Share Posted July 28, 2002 Graphic work(very good) have a look at Rob Appleby photos has got more style with the same message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert knapp md Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Powerful stuff!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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