Sebastiao Salgado: The Photographer as Activist
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2008
- A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism adjunct professor Ken Light and Photo Critic and Curator Fred Ritchin. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents [1/2005] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 9214]
It was really impressing to see how his life and work are the same!! He is one of a kind!
His work is a must for any of us who dout the imortance of a social conscious within the modern documentry context. His images are a important reflection of the social justice issues he is commenting on.
arte e impegno sociale insieme contribuiscono a cambiare in meglio il mondo.Di questo siamo grati a Sebastiao Salgato..
He is a great human being!!Viva Sebastião Salgado! Um grande brasileiro!
amazing talented man
I remember hearing Rich Clarkson, former director of photography of National Geographic say at the Missouri Photo workshop (sponsored by the University of Missouri-Colombia School of Journalism) that Salgado was the greatest living photojournalist. He's right. And Salgado still is.
I love his work and James Nachtwey's work.
He is my favorite photographer. Omg
Master of photography. There's a good film on him called "looking back at you".
Between art and the intent to inspire a rescue mentality with respect to the world, art is obviously more important. Too often rescue is no more than a subterfuge or a palliative in place of real assistance and real solutions that leave the dignity of the hapless or unlucky intact.
If one wishes to curb abusive employment practices a round the world the place to start is to modify consumption patterns in America and Europe. Those consumption patterns are the product of a USD Reserve currency system that magnifies American power. The immense tensions of this levered system result in extreme human and natural drama. That drama is the fountain of Salgado's art. Reverse engineering the art to the true causes of transnational suffering is far from easy.
The Photography of , Documentation of,
and Profiteering from Tragedy, Calamity, Victims, and Corpses:
He is a good photographer and I like
his work very much which I saw in magazines in the 1980's when I was
a teenager and also an enthusiastic beginner photographer. Today, my
outlook and world view is very different due to having read many
books, and watched many documentaries and having a lifelong interest
in photography and photographers. My question is: What can a
photographer do? What can Salgado do? He clearly is passionate
about his work, but he has become a celebrity, and a spokesperson,
and an authority, and is influential, but the reality remains that
the photographs which he says are “given to me” are auctioned,
published, broadcast, and the people who are the subjects, and
objects, and corpses have received nothing in return, and in fact,
they are anonymous and nameless content. This whole spectacle is a
hypocrisy, and the circus is orchestrated by The Hypocrites who call
the shots and draw up the contracts, and give the authorizations and
permissions and consider themselves Saints and their behaviour
Saintly. They go to the Third World and Developing, and Least
Developed Countries (LDC's), and Primitive Societies and those people
end up becoming the subject of Exhibitions, Auctions, Coffee table
Books, Talks, Debates, Fund-Raising, Non-Governmental Organizations,
and Governmental Organizations Disbursing Public Funds. Do any of
this do anything for the victims, and dead, and orphans, and
devastated? Or is it all just a Spectacle? Are those people? Are
they somebodies or anonymous nobodies?
1:16:38 PERIOD.
looking at the speakers and the prior comments it is clear how misguided you all are. beautiful pictures of suffering is outright pretentious. perhaps people do not publish these photos for that reason! the photographer makes a conscious choice to photograph suffering when he should be extending his hand instead.
His pictures would be much better if he used Instagram filters.
hahahahahahahaa WTF