Movie review: 'Salt of the Earth' an eyewitness to photographer's own history

A photographer (etymologically) is someone who draws with light, and "Salt of the Earth" is full of such stunning drawings -- images of split-second, black-and-white revelation -- accompanied by Salgado's accounts of taking them: slave workers in Brazilian gold mines; Kuwaiti oil well...

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Published inTCA News Service
Main Author Paris, Barry
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago Tribune Content Agency LLC 01.05.2015
Subjects
Earth
Photographers
Rwanda
Brazil
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Summary:A photographer (etymologically) is someone who draws with light, and "Salt of the Earth" is full of such stunning drawings -- images of split-second, black-and-white revelation -- accompanied by Salgado's accounts of taking them: slave workers in Brazilian gold mines; Kuwaiti oil wells aflame in the wake of Saddam's retreat; gentle Coptic Christians quietly starving in Ethiopia; 250,000 driven from their villages to die in the Congo; epidemic cholera in the refugee camps; human skeletons, whose "governments" deliberately withhold relief food; unspeakable genocide in Rwanda.