Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aaawww B.D. - I love John Berger's stuff on Photography... have you read "Photocopies"? Tim A - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado > THAT explains it...;-) > > Thanks. > > > > Brian McCarthy wrote: > > > > I believe the interviewer was John Berger, novelist, playright and art > > critic. He wrote 'Ways of Seeing'. > > > > Brian McCarthy > > brian@imagespace.co.uk > > www.imagespace.co.uk > > > > B. D. Colen wrote: > > > > > > Who was that interviewer BTW? Is Looking Back At You also a program > > > about Salgado? I need something like last night's show for my students > > > this coming spring semester... > > > > > > > > > > > > "Robert D. Baron" wrote: > > > > > > > > This morning B.D. Colen opined about the special that aired last night > > > > on Cinemax: > > > > > > > > > Salgado's > > > > > view of what he does was fascinating...The interviewer was > > > far too full > > > > > of himself and art-history-theory bs...and the photos were, > > > needless to > > > > > say, magnificent..... > > > > > > > > Well and accurately said. I concur completely. > > > > > > > > I also found the background music as tiring as the interviewer. > > > > > > > > By far the better show overall for me is the older BBC documentary > > > > 'Looking Back At You' which I recently got through Amazon.com. > > > > > > > > --Bob Baron / Oklahoma City