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Subject: [Leica] Salgado and Illy Coffee (For Philippe)
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun Oct 1 17:49:32 2006

Nope - he was working for a coffee cooperative -


On 10/1/06 8:00 PM, "Anders Nygren" <anders.nygren@gmail.com> wrote:

> A long time ago Nathan wrote:
> 
> "Salgado was working for the World Bank, as far as I remember, and it was
> during one of the trips he made on behalf of the bank that he started
> photographing what he saw. You do not get rich by working for the World
> Bank, and economists generally are not that well paid, except the few
> Nobel-winning stars and the snake-oil merchants on Wall Street. So I am
> sure that Salgado made the right career choice (for him!) also from the
> point of view of personal finance."
> 
> 
> On 10/1/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
>> I know he's an economist, but I believe that he was doing work with a 
>> coffee
>> cooperative of some sort, borrowed his wife's camera when he went on trip,
>> and the rest is history.;-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/1/06 5:47 PM, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 1, 2006, at 2:35 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Not to beat a dead horse - ah, what the hell, they can't bite or
>>>> kick ;-) -
>>>> but what major documentarian hasn't done commissioned work of one
>>>> kind or
>>>> another? Good God, Eugene Richards has done ad campaigns for Nike
>>>> and Levis,
>>>> Mary Ellen Mark regularly does commercial work, and on and on. And
>>>> perhaps
>>>> I'm delusional at this point on a rainy Sunday, but wasn't Salgado an
>>>> economist with some sort of Latin America coffee growers
>>>> cooperative or some
>>>> such?
>>> 
>>>   I seem to recall Salgado being trained in economy in Paris well
>>> before he ever ventured into photography...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/1/06 5:03 PM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Philippe
>>>>> 
>>>>> I had a Nespresso machine in my office before Amici Caff?/Illy
>>>>> became my
>>>>> client. I got a X1 espresso machine and a few kg of coffee beans.
>>>>> I have given
>>>>> away the Nespresso machine as well as about 200 capsules of
>>>>> coffee, for free
>>>>> and without regrets. Nespresso is at least three floors below
>>>>> Illy. It's like
>>>>> comparing a a 1999 Rioja Conde de Valdemar (certainly a fine all
>>>>> day red
>>>>> wine), to a 1979 Ch?teau Mouton-Rothschild Grand Cru Class?.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The Amici (swiss illy) website I've recently created is in french,
>>>>> too, find
>>>>> some interesting articles about how illy is:
>>>>> 
>>>>> -handling the production of coffee*:
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/j8fhk
>>>>> 
>>>>> -tasting Coffee*:
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/m5ckk
>>>>> 
>>>>> -selectioning the raw goods:
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/gg9hl
>>>>> 
>>>>> -practising "Commerce ?quitable":
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/f95zw
>>>>> 
>>>>> (*flash player required)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Didier
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> This one ain't bad either:
>>>>>> http://www.nespresso.com/precom/n_home_be_en.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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