Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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