Sebastiao Salgado show: The Force of Nature

[jwaddison]

at the Museum of Natural History in London

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prosp...eforceofnature

[Nathan Potter]

London Ontario or London England?

Nate Potter, Austin TX.

[pdmoylan]

There are many individuals who I admire in my life but few I would wish to emulate; but Salgado is one. Yet, I don't shoot anything like him - perhaps that is what I most admire in him.

I hope the show gets to the US. It's not something I would miss.

[jwaddison]

London England

[Jim Cole]

Man, I wish I could see this show.

[mathieu Bauwens]

'think to spend some hours in London in few weeks

[Kirk Gittings]

Do you like his landscape work? It seems digitally way over processed to me. Used to love his work.

[h2oman]

Based on what I see when I do search under images, genesis, I'd have to agree with you, Kirk. A few I really like, but most of it looks way "overcooked," for lack of a better word.

That is of course just my opinion, and it is a comment about the man's images, not the man himself! I don't know him...

[ROL]

Do you like his landscape work? It seems digitally way over processed to me. Used to love his work.

Here's an (hopefully) interesting aside to that. I attended one of his talks a few years ago. At that time he was switching over entirely to digital, because, as he claimed, it had become too difficult to transport film through security. People oohed and ahed (and gasped!) over gigantic projections of his work, half of which was film based. I don't think many of the students attending had ever seen much monochrome, decent or otherwise, and certainly weren't able to distinguish analog from D within that venue. I have seen quite a few of his silver prints at the Peter Fetterman Gallery at Bergamot in Santa Monica. I liked his legacy work, though quite "heavily" printed (NTMOM).

[pdmoylan]

Help me with "overprocessed", "heavily printed" and "overcooked". What in his prints creates these impressions.