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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee OT a bit
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Fri Sep 29 12:04:27 2006
References: <6.2.1.2.2.20060929113044.022b0998@pop.med.cornell.edu> <005101c6e3e4$b725e340$a302a8c0@ted>

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.
>>
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Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist
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