Salgado - faking it.

[MX5Bob]

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Gene Smith might have made the first prints and those submitted to editors at Life, but he did employ a printer in New York, who was interviewed in Camera 35 back in the late '70s. As AlanG mentioned, one of the techniques employed was to print dark and then bleach selected areas back. Of note is the famous picture of Albert Schweitzer, which required hours of work.

 

In the end, it's the image, what it says and how it affects people that matters. There are great images that were captured in mere moments and others that required physical difficulty and a lot of planning on the part of the photographer. I simply can't imagine a reason to use that as a yardstick.

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[pico]

There are great images that were captured in mere moments and others that required physical difficulty and a lot of planning on the part of the photographer. I simply can't imagine a reason to use that as a yardstick.

 

I can. Among other of his images I would like to see the eyes in this image:http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/smith/smith_wake.jpg

 

where here he retouched the the eyes of the obervers from the camera to the subject