[Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (Philippe Amard)]

Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> <> HCB photographs. Same scenario, would any of
> his photographs have been worse or better with modern M glass and exposure
> metering?


Could have spoiled the whole thing Geoff, it might at least.

I was at this HCB exhibition in Paris last Thursday.
Lots of prints, each a masterpiece.
Yet, some are on the verge of fuzzy, some are not that sharp, soft in 
some cases to modern standards at least,
the sea isn't even always level, etc.
Technicalities doesn't seem to have been his concern at all, I'm 
cautious here as I don't know.

Only, each one of these 50 or 80 photographs has character.
It doesn't pop at you, you just seamlessly sink into them.
I'd bet he used the cam as he knew it could work.
I think it's all that is to say about the gear.

And when there, you don't need to know you're there to know who was 
behind the camera, whatever the camera.
That is a question you don't even ask.
Opportunity, light, geometry, every thing tells you the camera was just 
a tool he used to convey his vision.

Yet, his tireur(s) should also receive more credits. As many Wows as 
there are rints exposed.

My two Pfennig of Saukraut ;-)
Have fun in (sunny?) Berlin my friend.
Best from Metz
Philippe