emmeffepi ha scritto:
In uscita dalla mostra non so se hai potuto sfogliare il libro di
Nick Brandt che era disponibile...non proprio molto fair per Salgado...nel senso che lo trovo decisamente superiore nel suo rappresentare la natura in BN ;)
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Ecco, un altro mostro che non conoscevo... Grazie per la segnalazione!
Foto meravigliose, scultoree e provocatorie (la serie di gigantografie piazzate in zone degradate) e... analogiche (anche se poi le spennella in PS)!
Sì, sì, lo so, il mezzo alla fine non conta (soprattutto davanti a certi scatti) ma... vuoi mettere poter dire "non tutte le foto di UUUILDLAIF devono essere in stile digitaloso-teleobbiettivatissimo-supersaturo-dettaglioso?
Un breve estratto di una sua intervista del 2013 che ho trovato, così per masticare un po' di "pane":
- Is there anything you’d like to be able to do photographically that’s limited by technology?
- Just that I wish my Pentax 67 had all the technical ‘aids’ that other cameras now have – I would love to have the options of auto-focus, image stabilizing lenses, continued shooting as opposed to roll out of film after 10 frames, motor drive.
But in spite of that, I choose the total impracticality of my camera because simply, when I view through the waist level viewfinder (how I use the camera), I am ‘turned on’ when I look at the image on the ground glass in a way I am not by other cameras. And I prefer film to digital, because as mentioned before, I love the surprises and imperfections that you can get with film, the unexpected ways that light will sometimes interact with the negative, whereas for black and white, and the subject matter that I shoot, I find digital too clinical, too perfect. And technically perfect is not necessarily better or more interesting.
Even with my scanner, I deliberately use a funky old 2003 model Nikon Scan 9000, which results in all sorts of imperfections (some good, some bloody irritating), rather than getting flawless drum scans.
- One question from a reader: How do you prevent the shutter noise of the Pentax 67II from scaring the animals off?
- Hah, yes! The 67 shutter is crazily KA-CHUNKK!! Occasionally, a lion will initially jump a little, but they quickly get used to it. No animal has been scared off.
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