Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:35 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote: >Didn't the us army agreed to a second, extra invasion for Robert Capa some >days later, additionally ? The series with the famous flag/ banner pic ? Alf, you have two stories mixed up there. The flag story, was about Abe Rosenthal at Iwo Jima. He did not photograph a staged event there, they were just putting up a second larger flag because the first one was not large enough to be seen all across the island. That has been thoroughly researched and proven to be the case. Rosenthal is now dead, but he always denied it being staged, and the evidence is with him. News Photographer magazine (for the National Press Photographers Association here in the U.S.) has done several articles on this as rumors seem to be nearly impossible to kill. In fact, one of my teachers in journalism school (Ken Kobre who now runs the photo-j program at San Francisco State) has an autographed print of that famous picture. Nice to see the real thing. ============= Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO To iterate is human; to recurse, divine.