Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/22

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Subject: Re: Capa's cameras
From: Craig and Barbara Shier <shier@mnsinc.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 22:12:12 -0400

OK.  In an excerpt from "Slightly Out of Focus" quoted in "The Art of
Photography"  1839-1989, Capa himself says, "But the excited darkroom
assistant while drying the negatives, had turned on too much heat...."

- --Craig Shier

>From: "Charles E. Albertson" <chucko@ricochet.net>
>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 22:07:41 -0700
>Subject: Re: Capa's cameras
>
>At 09:13 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 10:54 AM -0500 on 9/19/97, Eric Welch wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, it was a young photojournalist, whom I can't remember his name
>>> right now, but he became famous photographing the Viet Nam war. Larry
>>> Burrows, maybe?
>>>
>>Eric,
>>
>>That's what I understood, that it was Larry Burrows. Ironic that he should
>>have died in VietNam, also. Yeah, I have the book on Burrows (yes, I
>>collect 'em, I guess).
>>
>>Chris Morrow
>>
>Richard Whelan's bio of Capa says that, although Larry Burrows was working
>in the Time-Life darkroom that day (he was 18 at the time), he wasn't the
>one who fried the negatives. Doesn't say who did.
>
>Chuck Albertson
>Seattle, Wash.
>
>------------------------------
Craig and Barbara Shier
Manassas, VA
shier@mnsinc.com