{"id":2200,"date":"2013-08-19T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T07:36:32","slug":"salutary-salagado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewhiterock.co.uk\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Salutary Salgado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Iceberg in the Antarctic Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/resources-rx\/images\/1007\/ceberg-antarctic-peninsula_119764_1.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"230\" \/>Although you can see some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/visit-us\/whats-on\/temporary-exhibitions\/salgado-genesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">this striking exhibition \u2013 a worldwide preview \u2013 on the website<\/a>, while there\u2019s still the last chance,\u00a0how much better to see the photographs at the Natural History Museum in the flesh \u00a0(of which there\u2019s plenty, as nude bodies often feature in the virgin landscapes; the penis gourds of jungle tribesmen are flourished exuberantly by their wearers.)<\/p>\n<p>Sebasti\u00e3o\u00a0 Salgado\u2019s previous acclaimed epic projects and books include <i>Workers<\/i> and <i>Migrations<\/i>, about human displacement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for <i>Genesis<\/i>, he sets out, in what may well be a last elegiac photographic project, to document the 40% remaining of untouched planet.<\/p>\n<p>What prevents this from being <i>National Geographic <\/i>writ large is the tenderness. Where N<i>at Geo<\/i> follows Ansel Adams in presenting pin sharp images \u2013 life at f.64 \u2013 Salgado has a softer depth of field and texture to his black-and-white prints: a cloud of Antarctic petrels rise up, the mountain massif behind them a misty backdrop;\u00a0 or a Yali man collect insects from a giant fern in Papua New Guinea, his skin rippled with articulated tension like the sprung branches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/resources-rx\/images\/1007\/arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-northeastern-alaska-northern-spaces_119767_1.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"194\" \/>The project took him so long that he started shooting on a film camera and ended on a digital one, with a lot of retouching and &#8220;painting&#8221; in the lab.\u00a0 Occasionally the black-and-white can frustrate (hard to see a picture of red and green macaws without wishing for colour), but it often works beautifully, like the large egrets in the Pantanal or Disappointment River winding its way through Canada.<\/p>\n<p>For a man who is seventy next year, the sheer energy of his range and travelling is impressive &#8211; from sand dunes in Algeria to some lovely wondering albatross in the South Atlantic to a herd of buffalo seen from a balloon in North America. \u00a0As a reminder of the still undiscovered or seldom visited world, it is salutary. \u00a0And if you miss the exhibition,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Genesis-Sebastiao-Salgado\/dp\/3836538725\" target=\"_blank\"> there is always the excellent book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although you can see some of this striking exhibition \u2013 a worldwide preview \u2013 on the website, while there\u2019s still the last chance,\u00a0how much better to see the photographs at the Natural History Museum in the flesh \u00a0(of which there\u2019s plenty, as nude bodies often feature in the 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