Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There is a terrific new Capa book out from Apeture....it accompanies a just > opened show in Spain of Capa's Spanish Civil War work, some long lost. > Apparantly Cornell Capa had three numbered sets of platinum prints produced > of the Civil Wart stuff and donated one set to a Spanish Museum....the book > includes reproduction of some photo notebook pages, interesting essays, and > and long discussion of the Dying Soldier photo....If one believ es the > latest, there seems little doubt that it was NOT posed....The soldier has > been identified, his unit has been identified, and he died in the right > place at the right time...further, there is serious doubt about the > reliability of the old Brit whose claims of being elsewhere with Capa first > caused the stink.... > > By the way...it's mind boggling how many of the photos are relatively > soft/not quite focused....wonder if he was using some of those shitty > Japanese optics? > :-) Somewhere in my 1969 to 1997 run of Leica Fotografie magazines is a piece about Capa's "Death in Action" photo and the Leica camera and lens he used to take it with. Perhaps someone knows which edition of LF contains the article. jh