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I met Salgado once at a small exhibition at the Brazilian embassy that a friend invited me to. I was completely starstruck and just shook his hand and retreated to a corner to watch him tell stories to other people. He was very charming and thoughtful
Very jealous and can emphasise. Him and Daido Moriyama are probably the two photographers I'd be reduced to a fizzing mess should I ever meet them in person.
Had this through the post, Concrete Octopus by Osamu Kanemura
http://kanemura-osamu.com
He's a Japanese photographer that mostly takes dense cityscapes in B&W, highly contrasted with cables and signs a go-go.
He also has the best book and exhibition titles that wouldn't of looked out of place on a Fall album such as "Uncle Zyanose Meat" and "Room Full of Telepathy".I do however have an issue with Concrete Octopus the book. It's a portrait book (and quite a tall one at that) for photos shot in Landscape. They put a photo over two pages with the dip in the middle and that kills some of the photographs for me. They should have either made the book landscape format, or just wider and put one photo per page
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(Photos from Osamu Kanemura's website)
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I haven't seen the book, but I saw the exhibition when it was at the Natural History Museum a few years back - it was quite something. I have a copy of his 'Workers' book, which is incredible.
(I met Salgado once at a small exhibition at the Brazilian embassy that a friend invited me to. I was completely starstruck and just shook his hand and retreated to a corner to watch him tell stories to other people. He was very charming and thoughtful.
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The sunshine isn't hugely conducive to rooting through my shelves, but I'll try to add some reviews to this thread when I next sit down with one of my books...