Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would be smiling too, I'm sure. I could buy an M8. Envy really is what drives consumption I suppose.\ C At 12:31 PM 9/29/2006, you wrote: >Chris Saganich offered: >Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee OT a bit > >Chris, >Salgado would be smiling all the way to the bank without the kind of >feelings you experince. He smiling doesn't make it right, but it does make >him feel much better as he's photographing the down trodden peoples of the >world. > >ted > >>So I happened to be wondering through the Time-Warner mall at Columbus >>Circle last week when I spied a lot of giant Salgado prints on display, >>(he once used a Leica). On each image there was a small caption about >>the image and a plug for Illy, which I had never heard of before. I >>assumed Illy was some group sponsoring the exhibit. At the conclusion of >>the exhibit there was a coffee bar, an Illy coffee bar. I was unhappy to >>realize the whole thing was a PR campaign. Now the question shot into my >>mind...is this right? I looked around at the mall and the shops and all >>the people sipping the Illy coffee and then at the Salgado prints again >>and the prints became reduced to corporate PR and I was angry. Flame me >>all you want but I realized two things - consumption has replaced >>democracy, and the image is the driving force behind consumption. It's >>all so rude. >> >>Chris Saganich - not happy with the world these days. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >>-- >>No virus found in this incoming message. >>Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.12.9/458 - Release Date: 27/09/2006 >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York Presbyterian Hospital chs2018@med.cornell.edu Ph. 212.746.6964 Fax. 212.746.4800 Office A-0049