Monday, April 11, 2016

Sebastião Salgado follows same trajectory as Leni Riefenstahl


Wim Wender's hauntingly beautiful documentary traces Sebastião Salgado's evolution from social photographer, a witness of the human condition, to nature photographer.  This is a motion picture director making a film about a still photographer, such an interesting dynamic.

Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's photographer followed the same trajectory, disenchanted with propaganda films, she devoted her life to studying African native cultures and at age 71 was certified as a scuba diver in Malindi, Kenya just about when I was there snorkeling.  Her coral reef books capped her amazing career.

Salgado loses his faith in mankind, as extraordinary witness, yet his wife acts as a silent partner offering a kind of in absentia companionship.  

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