Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
From: "Jason Hall" <JASON@jbhall.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:32:02 +0100
References: <000201c0ce3d$8e1bfe20$265d83ac@steveuns>

Hi Steve

Where is the exhibition, Im just down the road from Walsall in Great
Barr.

Thanks

Jason

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: [Leica] Salgado


> Yesterday I went to the Salgado 'Migration' exhibition in Walsall
here in
> the UK.
>
> All I can say to anyone who is able to go is, don't think twice, go!
> Magnificent photographs. The exhibition was larger than I expected,
maybe
> 200 photographs.
>
> What really surprised me were the pictures of children that he took
just to
> keep them quiet. They are all placed together along two walls in one
of the
> rooms. I told myself that I shouldn't like them, that they were just
closely
> cropped portraits that showed very little of the context in which
they were
> taken. But I was won over, they were incredibly moving photographs.
>
> The exhibition is on until early June - I don't know if it's touring
after
> that -  admission is free.
>
>
> Steve
>
>

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