Thursday, September 10, 2015

Films 15/09/10

I saw an unusual doc last weekend..
'Salt of the Earth' link about a Brazilian photographer who spent 40 years on Humanity type projects...4 or 5 years on a stretch, he lived with and documented the lives of all types of people.  Starting out as an economist, he took up the camera that his wife was using for a project, and instantly knew that the camera was his life's work.....
Working with Doctors Without Borders, he witnessed and documented many horrible events..(Hint - don't look at the massacres, just listen).  All the human brutality led him to abandon his art for many years, but then he found a new calling, - replanting the forests and saving Mother Earth.  An unforgettable film about ann unforgettable artist.  Sebastiao Salgado.
Gold miners work in Brazil in a Sebastião Salgado photo seen in "The Salt of the Earth."  | © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images/Sony Pictures Classics


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