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- What are the main differences and similarities?
They all have different approaches on how photographs should be taken based on their own experiences.Eugene Smith liked to stage the picture that he took as well as Sebastiao Salgado.
Eugene Smith: The Walk to Paradise Garden, photograph of Smith’sson Patrick and daughter Juanita, 1946. Smith’s son remembers that he and his sister had to walk 3-4 times in front of his father’s camera. Whereas Salgado feels he believes in a sense becoming one with those people he photographed, and worked to understand the existence of those he depicts (Salgado, 1990). Salgado spent time with people, Salgado felt, he was able to see their suffering.” (pp.146-147).
Kertesz’s and Cartier-Bresson’s they believed that the photograph should be untouched to show the reality.

- What’s the better journalistic approach?
Journalistic better approach is not to tamper with the picture and show the truth behind the real life on what the people in the picture are going through. The true events happening in the world should be shown as it is and need to follow the code of ethics ( NPPA). Sebastiao Salgado wanted to get to know the people in order to show the real story in the picture on how he felt the people was going through. Eugene smith wanted to capture the photograph by taking picture at the right moment by staging for instance how he did with the picture taken of his son and daughter.



Eugene Smith: Tomoko Uemura in her bathwith the people he captured in his photographs. Minamata, a Japanesefishing village whose population was poisoned by the mercury in the water.




Salgado portrays the conditions very powerfully in his photos.


Sources:
www.magnumphotos.com
www.nppa.org
 http://www.pixelicia.com/2007/12/18/sebastiao-salgado-retratos-
de-la-crudeza
SmithSalgadoShootingTheTruthIcevska.pdf