Anybody passing through New York this summer should try to get to the
International Center of Photography for this show:
"Migrations, Humanity in Transition: Photographs by Sebastiao
Salgado", through Sept. 9, International Center of Photography,
1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street.
I caught it this week (with Rob Studdert and his wife, but that's
another story) and recommend it highly. If you do not get to New York,
watch for it elsewhere. It is a traveling exhibit, although I do not
know where else it goes, or when.
Just a few of the hundreds of photos on exhibit (and included in the
recently published book) can be seen at, albeit in quite small form:
http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/salgado/index.html
The show received a rather persnickety review in today's New York Times
Magazine, which starts by discussing reasons why a French critic has
recently called his work: 'Sentimental voyeurism." But the bottom line
of the review is:
"That said, the good photographs are so stupendously gorgeous that they
make you forget everything else while you are looking at them. They
bespeak uncanny formal intuition, a ready repertory of apt allusions to
art history and peerless timing (and some luck maybe, too, which all
great photojournalists have). This applies whether the image is a
panoramic blur of jostling commuters at a Bombay railroad station,
wherein a visual clich� of human overpopulation and modern travel is
transformed into a minor miracle of geometric and textural subtlety; or
the fearful, glassy-eyed glare of three refugee babies captured through
a slit between rough blankets; or the silent labor of people dragging a
mastless skiff over glossy sand under leaden skies, an image screaming
with Christian symbolism like so many of Mr. Salgado's pictures. You
would have to be blind or dead-hearted or immune to aesthetic pleasure
not to be at least occasionally bowled over by such improbable skill."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/arts/design/13KIMM.html?0713inside=&pagewanted=all
The same issue of the Times Magazine contains a short article
highlighting Delgado's choice of photojournalism's five best shots. At:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/magazine/15FIVEFROM.html?searchpv=nytToday
Bob Harris
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