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Sebastiao Salgado-Looking Back at You [VHS] (1998)

Sebastiăo Salgado , Jorge Amado , Andrew Snell  |  NR |  VHS Tape
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Sebastiăo Salgado, Jorge Amado, Arthur Miller, Celia Wanick Salgado
  • Directors: Andrew Snell
  • Producers: Andrew Snell
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Language: English, French, Portuguese
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Homevision
  • VHS Release Date: June 13, 2000
  • Run Time: 59 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0780019504
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,364 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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One of the world's leading photojournalists, Sebastiao Salgado has shaped our perception of political and social reality. This important look of his work focuses on his monumental photo-essay Workers, seven years in the making. Salgado's dominant theme is the displacement of manual labor by technological advances. Workers presents an unsentimental documentation of the effects of this new industrial revolution, and focuses on laborers in Eastern Europe, Cuba, Gdansk, Brazil, India, Sicily, and Bangladesh. The program is rounded out by archival footage of Salgado's life and commentary from artists, photographers, critics, and writers such as Arthur Miller and Jorge Amado.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Description of Salgado's Technique and Work, March 23, 2002
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David Enzel (Chevy Chase, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sebastiao Salgado-Looking Back at You [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This video will show you how one of the great photojournalists of our time works. Salgado describes his viewpoint, shows his equipment, explains how he works (he's on location shooting for long periods), how he processes his film and the editing process he follows. His wife and editors are also interviewed. I learned how close Salgado gets to the people he photographs and why that is so important. I enjoyed watching this video and learned from it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Great photographer, dull film, January 20, 2006
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Pablito (Hartford, CT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sebastiao Salgado-Looking Back at You [VHS] (VHS Tape)
No doubt that Salgado is one of the most important social documentary photographers of our generation. Unfortunately, this film is very poorly organized and edited. While it contains valuable information, it's hard to watch. We do get a sense of Salgado's motivation and his working process, as other reviewers have noted. However, the film is structurally weak. It jumps back and forth in time - at times we are not sure if we're watching a film about Salgado or about the plight of workers around the world. We don't see enough of Salgado's photos and those we do see are cropped to fit the TV screen. There are compelling moments, such at when a female sugar-cane worker in Brazil articulates her conviction that machines will never cut sugar-cane as well as humans, or when she expresses her amazement at the high purchase price of Salgado's "Workers" book. However, the film adds up to a lot less than the sum of its parts. Despite being as big Salgado fan, I feel asleep during the film both times I watched it!
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10 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Discussion of his WORKERS book project, December 1, 1998
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One of the world's leading photojournalists, he has helped shape our present perception of political and social reality. In this video he discusses his seven-year project to document the lives of workers around the world.
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