Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado
From: Guy Bennett <2bennett@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:02:09 +0100
 
>With Salgado, there's also the issue of taking awful suffering and
>making it maybe too beautiful.  Then again, in a world where we've been
>exposed to so many images of suffering that we have become immune to
>them, maybe making them too beautiful is a valid way of attracting our
>attention....
>--Peter


This is exactly Salgado's response to the criticism that he aestheticizes
images of human suffering. I think he put it thus: "A beautiful picture
communicates more effectively than an ugly one."

Guy