Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In fact, it doesn't really matter, does it? Quoting: Robert Capa, in Focus Blood and Champagne details the remarkable life of the 20th century's greatest war photographer By MARYANN BIRD, Time Magazine june 30th, 2003: "It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death. "The Falling Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political bias and idealism," he writes, adding: "Indeed, he would soon come to experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably confront." " --- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:34:17 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ? > > Ohmigod, not that again. That duck has been shot down and eaten. :-) > See, among other things, Richard Whelan's essay, Robert Capa In Spain, > in the book "Heart of Spain - Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spainish > Civil War, From The Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte > Reina Sofia, published by Aperture in 1999. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Philippe Orlent > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:29 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Best known photo ? > > > And rumours go the photo is faked. > >> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:10:01 EDT >> To: lug@leica-users.org >> Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ? >> >> This 1936 photograph, by Robert Capa of a Spanish soldier at the >> moment of death during the Spanish Civil War, was taken, I believe, >> with a Leica and is regarded among the great photograph of all time. >> -- bob cole _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >