I visited the Genesis exhibition in April - a fantastic accumulation of eight year documentary photography. Unfortunately my original write up has disappeared from my blog so I've lost my initial reactions. This has now been rewritten from memory of what I wrote the first time round :-(
I am actually wondering now if it was taken down because I had added some of Salgado's images? Although I attributed them to him, and if you are using them for study purposes this is not a breach of copywrite, I wonder if that is what happened...
Anyway, this was a stunning exhibition. Well worth the visit. Excellently curated with a section for each geographic region. Bags of interest for landscape, wildlife and anthropology. All black and white so really focusing on texture and shape. Great examples for TAOP Elements of Design!!
One thing I noticed was that most of the pictures were grainy - obviously deliberate - does Salgado add this after or is this a result of very high ISO. I also noticed that in some pictures the framing was so tight that parts of e.g. a whale tail had been chopped. Again - assuming deliberate - but why? I think that if I did that - my tutor would complain!
What I loved about the exhibition was the objective: to show landscapes and communities untouched and unscarred by modern life. I also really liked the use of abstract in wildlife, which was something I hadn't seen before, e.g. the lizard foot and the iguana tail.
I have put the book on my amazon wish list for Christmas - I will write more then when I can reference the images more easily.
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