Do you know what Picasso said when he looked at my drawings in 1939? “You’re crazy, Brassai. You have a gold mine and you spend your time exploiting a salt mine!” The salt mine was – naturally – photography!
Brassai, dialogue with Photography by Paul Hill
For all Picasso’s cheeky sarcasm, the salt did Brassai no harm.
It is also clear that Picasso did not appreciate the importance of salt to humans, its impressive history and the size of the industry: worldwide production of salt is over 200 million tons.
Last year, I visited a fascinating salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria; still operational, and dating back to 5000BC.
It’s time for a weekly quotation-inspired image.
If the quote inspires a pictorial or wordy post from you, do feel free to link in or to pop your URL in the comments.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 17 April 2019
Quite different to the salt pans by our Portuguese home!
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I’ve been to Hallstadt but quite a long time back. You captured it beautifully, in the details as well as the sweeping outside shots.
The quotation was a difficult one but I trusted my archive. When I searched for “salt” for no explicable reason one picture came up. Just as well: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/yet-it-looks-like-salt/
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Ah, yes, I enjoyed your clever interpretation
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this is wonderful to see how you play with lights and structures. Excellent work, Debbie.
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Thanks Markus
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Love your technical, historical etc…well categorised! But then, you are a wordy girl!
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🙂 🙂
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😀
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