Sebastiao Salgado

[wilfredo]

Hey,

You film lovers may be pleased to know that the legendary Sebastiao Salgado remains loyal to film. I just recently purchased his book: Africa, beautiful work. Much of his photography has been shot with Leica equipment.

Cheers,
Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography

[stunsworth]

I don't know about recently, but he used Tri-X for many of the older projects. If you've seen any of those prints in the flesh you'll know how impressive they are.

There was an article a couple of years ago in one of the French magazines that detailed the film, developer, and I think paper that he used for the prints. The developer was Calbe from memory, could be wrong there.

Retro Photographic Ltd - Black & White Specialist Photographic Products for something possibly similar

[roguewave]

Wilfredo, love his work. If you get back to NYC during this period1/11/2008 - 03/01/2008, make sure to stop by the Leica Gallery on Broadway to see David & Peter Turnley's exhibition of photos from their book, McClellan Street. Bullseye for your mission.

[Mark Antony]

January edition of Black and white Photography (David Bailey on cover) has an article on Salgado, the shot I love is a Leopard drinking from a pool at night-simply fantastic shot.
Mark

[gtownby]

Wilfredo --

Yes, I also have "Africa" and marvel over the immediacy of his 35mm shots versus the ones taken with the Pentax 67. In fact, I'm inspired to shoot more film by Salgado's skillful use of grain.

[pcsmythe]

PDN also has a short article on Salgado. Apparently he develops his own film and has come up with his own developing solutions.

[joopvork]

In this pdf file on the kodak website (on the new Tmax400) are some photos by Salgado, including the film & equipment he apparently used.

http://www.kodak.com/global/plugins/....17.28.3&lc=en

interesting that also on the Kodak site, here:
KODAK PROFESSIONAL TRI-X Films
he used a mamiya RZ 67 for the same picture, as is the brochure is stated he used a leicaM and 35mm lens. (the ratio of the picture does not look like 6x7...)

here's another link with some nice pictures on a project he did for illy coffee:
Sebastiao Salgado: a photographic journey through the lands of coffee

Joop

[peter_n]

It is a great pity that Salgado was left out of the recent book Magnum Magnum - it can only be because he left the agency. The book is very good but his omission is truly glaring. It is particularly sad because he epitomizes what Magnum was supposed to be about, but it is apparently a quite small-minded operation in reality.

[telewatt]

there are some storys about Salgado leafing Magnum...(smalltalk..)..

some say he had so much films for the Lab of Magnum that it becomes to problems with other Photographer..
and other sayed he do not like any more to pay so much to Magnum for his pictures...

He is great..

regards,
Jan

[telewatt]

Originally Posted by moritz_nienburg

I second he is great.

Regards Moritz

Jan, your english is horrible...-)

Thanks Moritz...

[Moritz]

Hi Jan,

you are always welcome..-)

Regards Moritz

PS: Sorry. I would have deleted it, but your answer came too fast.

[Paolo141257]

Interesting Wilfredo. I got the book by Salgado the other day as a maxi gift and started staring at the pics yesterday evening....and was wondering if he had used Leica or not.

What Leica do you think he has used? The book doesn't say anything (as often is the case with his works).

Long live b/w film!

Cheers,
Paolo

[wls.shanghai]

Originally Posted by Paolo141257

Interesting Wilfredo. I got the book by Salgado the other day as a maxi gift and started staring at the pics yesterday evening....and was wondering if he had used Leica or not.

What Leica do you think he has used? The book doesn't say anything (as often is the case with his works).

Long live b/w film!

Cheers,
Paolo

Sebastian Salgado use the

LEICA M 4 - M 6 and Leicaflex R 6

wls

Wilfredo,

I will never forget the great Salgado exhibition in the Gaudi-House in Barcelona (roundabout in the year 2002, his 60th anniversary) the which I had the pleasure to visit. A whole retrospective of his life as photographer.
I rested all the day in the exhibition and was owerwhelmed of the strength of his pictures full of empathy, humanist statements and technical perfection. What a photographer!!

The prints themselves from the technical point of view are just fantastic, absolutely owerwhelming also.
I own also the Book Africa, but the big prints in the exhibition are a Universe for themselves.
If you have ONCE the chance to visit one of his exhibitions, go for it.

You have the same photographers empathy - so you also will be impressed for a lifetime.

As for Vietnam:
In fact, it was the photographers victory, that this slaughterhouse ended. The strength of their Photos, their Films. Some of them sacrified their lifes for free information.

In "embedded" Photographers times this type of journalism doesn´t exist furthermore.
And THAT is a nightmare.

Dirk

[leob]

regarding the embedded journalism,
as you said, the uncensored images from the ground level in vietnam surely did their part to confront the public with the cruelty of war and i guess everybody got some of the most powerful images burnt into the Collective memory just like napalm into skin.

But just because of the "uncomfortable" experience the us military made in vietnam with all thees free war-photographers/filmers and reporters they started their embedded program for the media in iraq, which did a great job in controling most of the media comming out of over there.
(of course the couldn´t bann the media while waging war, otherwise it would have been very complicated to blame countrys like china for banning journalist from tibet.. perhaps the chinese should start to embed some mediaguys themself?)

But back to Salgado,
i adore his work, just like the work of Nachtwey and Pellegrin (and several uncounted war-photographers) and it always amazes me how well they all handle their cameras while maintaining good composition while beeing in a battle.

[trix]

Salgado stopped using Leicas years ago, his current "Genesis" project is shot with 6x45 cameras .

[wilfredo]

Originally Posted by Motivfindender

Wilfredo,

As for Vietnam:
In fact, it was the photographers victory, that this slaughterhouse ended. The strength of their Photos, their Films. Some of them sacrified their lifes for free information.

In "embedded" Photographers times this type of journalism doesn´t exist furthermore.
And THAT is a nightmare.

Dirk

This is so tragically true. The U.S. media has totally sold out on the current war in Iraq. I believe Nick Ut was the pulitzer prize winning photographer that took the picture with the greatest impact on the publics perception of the war in Vietnam (with a Leica M2 I might add Huỳnh Công Út - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). I haven't seen anything like his pictures to date on the war in Iraq. It is as if the more than 100,000 civilians who have been killed there don't matter. Perhaps it doesn't matter because they are Arabs? Certainly the media has done a great job of presenting all of them as the enemy terrorists of the world.

I met Nick Ut last Saturday (http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-...t-nick-ut.html) I posted pictures of him on our forum, and it generated hardly any interest. I'm not sure what to make of it.

Regards,
Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography

[Concorde-SST]

Yo all,

a friend of mine with whom I travelled to Ethiopia in October last year met Salgado there. He used Nikon digital equipment,
sorry, no Leicas!

best,

Andreas.

@ leob
@wilfredo

I absolutely agree with you both.

This danger for free information is sharpened by the Hollywood-like propaganda like the "liberation" of the female soldier, the lies in front of the security council before the Iraque war and the publication of the Terror- and Torture/Killing photos of Abu Ghareib.
It is the Ironic and bitter Reality that this scandal got publicity by the exchange of photos by people who thought they liberate others by killing them - and not at all by Photojournalists !! It was just because they were PROUD to torture and humiliate other people..

The only counterpart is the "democratization" of public reports by the high-effective aims of little digital cameras (even cellphone-cameras) and videocameras in the hands of the poor people who suffer or are just witnesses of things ongoing.
Maybe just THIS the last chance for Trueness in public conscioussness .

The worst nightmares of Orwell and Hyxley are now reality - no, we went worse than that..

Dirk

[tolled]

I always use Tri-X, but my photos are not quite as good as Salgado's. Should I buy a LEICA M4, M6, or a Leicaflex R6?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Dirk