[Leica] Sabastio Salgado

[gpinkcp at msn.com (Gary Pinkerton)]

SS is one of the greats, I think his work is masterful.

> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 03:48:42 -0700
> From: richard at imagecraft.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sabastio Salgado
> 
> He really is. I have just about all his books except the earliest ones.
> Although I missed the chance to speak to him directly, I did hear him talk
> once and he sounds like a nice person.
> 
> As for tones, Africa was shot on the Pentax 645, I believe. That's probably
> where the tones come from. For Genesis, he switched to Canon 1D something
> but with a 645 ratio mask and printed via analog mean. His earlier work 
> used
> also a Leica R6.2 and (may be) an M6/M7.
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am enjoying Salgados book 'Africa' and working my way through his
> > glorious images there. That man floors me every time with the sheer 
> > quality
> > of his images. I just don't know how he gets that great tonal range in 
> > the
> > print, let alone his ability to 'see'. It has often been said that his
> > images are just too beautiful to be reportage, but for me he is one of 
> > the
> > greatest alive today.
> >
> > Gerry
> >
> >
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