Re: Re[2]: [Leica] Re: salgado et al.

[Andrew Schroter <schroter@optonline.net>]

Each photographer brings their own point of view to a subject.  That point
of view is reflected in what they "see".  The point of view that a
middle-class American photographer brings to photography of some far-off
exotic locale is no more or less valid than the photography of a local
person.  Each sees the same subject through the filter of their respective
experiences.

It is quite useful to see both points of view.

Andy
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Walkden" <bob@web-options.com>
To: "Guy Bennett" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] Re: salgado et al.


> Hi,
>
> everything I would have said about this thread has already been said
> by others - I am in favour of anybody taking pictures of any culture,
> provided of course that one observes the normal courtesies.
>
> Most of my own photography of foreign cultures has been in Ethiopia,
> and I would strongly support the paragraph quoted below. Depardon's
> photographs of Ethiopia capture the country that I've been to more
> accurately than any other photos of Ethiopia, including mine :o(, that
> I know of. I've been to most of the Ethiopian places in his excellent
> book 'Voyages', and he really has done a great job.
>
> ---
>
>  Bob
>
> mailto:bob@web-options.com
>
>
> > So, that the work of photojournalists such as Salgado, Natchwey et al,
is
> > not representative of the "big picture" of life in a given country seems
> > obvious enough - Singh's pictures of India and Depardon's pictures of
> > Ethopia, to give just two examples, are very different indeed from the
> > endless stream of images featuring emaciated, impoverished children that
> > one has come to expect from western news media. But, of couse, no
picture
> > of two smiling Ethopian girls amusing themselves on a streetcorner is
ever
> > going to make the front page of a major western newspaper.
>
>