Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Subject: [Leica] Capa was no coward! At 03:39 PM 7/27/98 EDT, the anonymous Richard wrote: >I've read that Capa only stayed 90 minutes before fear took over and he went >back to the ships. Imagine the poor GI's who didn't have that choice! Bunk, sir. Capa was, if anything, of foolhardy courage, REPLY: Perhaps we're veering a bit off track here. The original post had nothing to do with whether Capa was a coward. Rather, it noted that the horrifically realistic D-Day sequence in the new Spielberg film, Saving Private Ryan, makes one wonder that anyone could have shot anything under those terrifying and physically appalling conditions. A photographer's decision to return to a ship after 30 minutes of shooting, or 30 seconds for that matter, might be viewed as an act of sanity, rather than as an act of cowardice. B. D.