Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:06 PM 1999-01-13 -0600, Kirk Turk wrote: > >Since, according to Eric, the photojournalism ethics is "hardly 40 years >old", Abe Rosenthal at Iwo Jima didn't really violate any ethical >standards when he allegedly staged the famous flag/ banner picture. -:) A cheap shot, and a canard. No, the picture wasn't "staged": it was a shot of the second flag-raising. The first flag had been too small to be readily visible from the rest of the island, so a "battle flag" (One Big Momma, and who among us knows the dimensions?) was substituted, and the Rosenthal's shot is an unstaged recording of that elevation. There are pictures, incidentally, of the "first" flag-raising, as well: my father's best friend in college was one of the folks involved in this one. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!