Is Salgado, like, magic?

[Bob Carnie]

I believe Salgado is using a LVT recorder for his digital capture, His prints I also believe whether from LVT or original negatives are on Ilford Warmtone.

The books and original prints are quite different , a lot of the explosive contrast is due to the book printer, as his original prints are more subtle.

He uses two printers , one for the larger prints (who I personally think is the better printer) and another for the smaller prints.
I believe he has been loyal to these printers for a very long time, I saw his show at George Eastman House, and I thought at the time the larger prints were better than the smaller prints.

I am not very impressed with any of his inkjet prints.

 

[Richard Man]

I have the fortune of seeing his prints in several occasions. Salgado is definitely a master of masters.

The heart of Eugene Smith, the eyes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the light of Fan Ho, the poetry of Michael Kenna, the spirit of Salgado

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I liked his earlier work but I think his aesthetic went off the rails when he introduced digital into the mix. I have his book of Africa and it is enjoyable to look at. Off the top of my head, I think the oilfield images are the most visually interesting ones he did, but that has more to do with the apocalyptic subject matter. When this thread was originally started I was kind of sad to see them tweaked. He was in the right place at the right time, which is a skill in and of itself. Don't kid yourself into thinking that he would have been the only one to be able to make those images though. There is no such thing as magic.

 

[cliveh]

This is precisely the ruinous vaporising that empties photography of its powerful and unique values. I won't accept a dumbed down world in which the universal consensus is reduced to "Photographs? Nah, leave it out, guv. It's all just pitchers, innit?"

When you take a photograph, you capture a moment in time. How you print/represent that moment in time can be done at leisure over days, weeks, months, years. But it is still the same moment in time.

 

[jjphoto]

It was a 60mm Macro Elmarit-R for a Leica SLR (I recall reading that he used the R6 bodies, & 28/35/60 lenses).

I guarantee the equipment makes no difference. I have the same gear and my pictures are crap. Salgado is a master. I saw the genesis exhibition in Singapore a couple of years ago.

 

[chip j]

The only Magic is in the equipment--properly discerned, it can take you to fabulous worlds.

 

[Craig75]

When you take a photograph, you capture a moment in time. How you print/represent that moment in time can be done at leisure over days, weeks, months, years. But it is still the same moment in time.

it really isnt the same moment in time because its the printing that contextualises that moment. As one can print in so many ways then that moment is very subjective

 

[MattKing]

I prefer the musical analogies. Both the creation of the musical idea, and its performance.
When it comes to photography, it is both the taking and the later making that matters to me.
I have absolutely no problem with the two parts of the photographic task being shared between two or more people.