>>4056072>but the man was a better photographer imoSalgado film work is damn good but i think they are simply different photographers, Sebastiao was a journalist who shot fast with portable equipment on the spot and later was send on staff to rural areas while Ansel was a hiker who used large format and planned many details on a still subject, it's quite the opposite artistic direction because one worked fast and shot in bursts while the other could only shoot a frame every minute.
In terms of 1 on 1 nature photography i think they are both on the same level but with the advantage to Ansel that he had no digital processing means like Salgado had for his cool Genesis book and also didn't choose for a faster less detailed format, relatively speaking the "faster" Pentax MF. Had Ansel used those things he would've been more aggressive with his dynamic range tweakings and shot much more as his frames were also limited by the donkey he had that one day, also if he hiked for one more day it meant more food for both and that meant 5 or 6 frames less.
They are hard to compare, we would need to see their fast-format era comparison too to get more of an idea, in this case when Ansel used Polaroids and when Salgado was a dynamic journalist early on, the former case i haven't see much but seems promising albeit still in the landscape realm, the latter case in my opinion being better than his drastic digital process days that seem cheap and somewhat garish at times.
>>4056074>I mean if the only criteria is being first...It's one of the criteria, not the only one, indeed he was one of the first but not the very first yet he revived that style and did it without losing merit in the process, despite his competition being long dead at that point and not having his nature spots (indeed extremely few had shot the places Ansel did) he still displayed technical proficiency and compositional abilities despite having much less resources.
