[Leica] Salgado' s work--Q for Mark R.

[wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith)]

Mark:
   
  You really "read" Cosmo or just look at the pics like I do? Tell the truth.
  Bill

Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
  I've got two points:

First point:
This political free speech slanted backing end is characterized by all
participants expressing their ideas in a round about skittish vague manner
I've not seen during our political diversions on the lug.
The "pinko press" seems to be the topic. No one wants to state it out loud
for some odd reason. NPR with it's liberal backing representing a liberal
slant; Talk radio dominated by right wing money, audience and slant on the
other.
A "free press" and a press without it's various slants directed to its
audient and backers have a free of bias point of view is blurring issues to
a weird extent.

Why it's too tricky to plainly state much of this stuff I don't know in the
middle of accusing others of not putting their cards on the table they go on
to then dance around what they're really saying themselves.
I guess right wing people on the list for some reason don't want to put
people off by coming out on where they are politically. The left wingers
seem to be a bit forthright about where they're coming from but vague things
over as well.

It would sure make the vague non points these people make more clear if they
were more forthright if they skipped the tap dancing over their basic stance
politically and humanitarianly.


Second verse same as the first:
On Salgato at the age of 60 taking a break from wading in the thigh high mud
of the direct human condition and doing a landscape project.
There is mud in Landscapes too.
Landscape and politics are not mutually exclusive of course. Amazing this
idea can be skipped over but some of use want to belabor the point of how
much of a hard core photographer of the people they are that they don't
think things thought before knocking out their 20th post of the day with the
reams of previous posts unsnipped below their own cute little snip.

Much landscape has a political slant in the plain terms of environmental
issues. Whether there is garbage in the foreground or where the shots are
pristine like Ansel's they both save national parks and make strong
environmental statements which produce concrete results.
Ansel got a Congressional Medal of Freedom for exactly this. I actually
value such a thing how naive!!

For Salgato to do his landscape thing now does not mean he's gone abstract
and taken a break from reality. Getting a bit spiritual with his "Genesis"
concept directly addresses our present human condition. Partly by making a
direct comparison to environmental origins.
Some may even think the environment is not a human condition issue!!!
They should read a few more articles in magazines in the dentists office.
There's great article on it in Cosmo this month.





Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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