Friday, October 4, 2013

An Artist I Admire

One artist I admire would be film photographer Sebastiao Salgado. I saw some of his new show, Genesis, at the ROM this summer, and I though his work was really beautiful. I was also impressed that it was so big, and beautifully hand developed. I shudder to think about what managing a darkroom and trying to develop pictures that big would be like!

His subject matter is the people and places that are currently untouched by modern human civilizations. He will go, literally, to all the far corners of the earth to live with remote tribes, study their cultures, and photograph them and the landscape around them. All his subject matter shows the contrast between these cultures and the cultures of our world, our "civilization". His goal is to show us this entirely different way of living, and he does it beautifully.

The pictures he takes are styled to be photojournalism, but he never ignores the composition of the photos, making his pictures a lovely blend of information and beauty. I hope to see the rest of his show one day.

Here is a link to the TED Talk Blog, which has a good article on Sebastiao Salgado (unfortunately, he does not have a website). Check out some of his amazing work! 

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