Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:39 AM 12/11/2003 -0700, you wrote: >So which subjects are the exploited objects? > >When we take a photograph we so often do just that - we "take" something - >how equitable is the exchange? > >tim And we come back around to this subject again. There is exploitation and there using photography to make a difference. Salgado refers to his work as "militant photography" and he got into it after a career as an economist because he thought he could make more of a difference with photography. Do you really think the gold miners or subsistence farmers or aids victims in Africa are exploited because Salgado photographed them and brought attention to their situations? From the Socialist Review (!): What angers some people is that these are beautiful pictures--as if that is an offence against their subjects and a way of making misery aesthetically pleasing. Salgado's own answer to the criticism is to say, 'I wanted to respect the people as much as I could, to work to get the best composition and the most beautiful light... If you can show a situation this way--get the beauty and the nobility along with the despair--then you can show someone in America or France that these people are not different.' Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html