ABSTRACT
Salgado's biography, installed on a placard, ended with something more like an after-dinner speech than like an educational device: for the years 1988 through 1990 years in which Salgado did a great deal of work all it cited was a list of awards. Salgado is working in a time very different from Smith's. It's possible, even probable, that Salgado intended his picture as an homage, but he is not a postmodernist appropriation artist, so it's hard to believe that all his derivative works are intended as quotes certainly, that's not how they've been presented. When Salgado’s admirers want to make the point that he understands what it is like to be outside the spheres of power, they bring up the fact that he lived in Brazil before moving to Paris. Actually, Salgado’s most vivid image is one that is atypical of his work as it has progressed, and it’s not about a subject that seems close to his heart.
