Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would like to buy the DVD. I went to his "Genesis" show in London a couple of years ago, and was frankly underwhelmed by the prints - they were totally over processed, and in my view, mangled beyond reason for maximum drama. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote: > The Salt of the Earth opened in Oklahoma City this afternoon. Ken Carney > and I were 50% of the first showing's audience. > > Nonetheless, we highly recommend it. It is not 'pretty' in that he > photographed a great deal of the worst of humanity and many of those > photographs are displayed in their full awful beauty, but the filmmakers > (Wim Wenders and Salgado's son Juliano) try to leave you on a somewhat > hopeful note. > > Even if they succeeded generally I am still not hopeful I'll ever be able > to produce images with that tonal range and d-max. Even if I buy better > cameras. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >