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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
From: "clive sanbrook" <clive.sanbrook@virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:31:13 +0100
References: <000201c0ce3d$8e1bfe20$265d83ac@steveuns>

have a look at Walsall art gallery www.artatwalsall.org.uk
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: 26 April 2001 11:42
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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