Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/27

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Subject: Re: Capa's cameras
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:09:26 -0500

At 03:55 PM 9/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>John G. Morris, a professor of mine from RIT days and one of the
>founders of Magnum and also photo editor of the NYTimes, told me this
>story first hand. He was working for LIFE (?) in London during the war
>and was there in the lab, I think maybe even as Capa's boss. In the rush

Oh, I believe that story. I just wanted to point out that the book
"Slightly out of focus" is in good part Capaesque fiction.

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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps