Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A beautiful one, that first one (small sized version on: http://www.berlin.de/rbm-skzl/mauer/images/soldaten-flucht.jpg) > From: "Douglas M. Sharp" <DouglasMSharp@netscape.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 00:23:22 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] was Best known photo ? now jumping or falling > > Probably the best known photo in Germany is somebody else jumping , but > definitely not posed. > A young East German soldier hurdling the barbed-wire between East and > West Germany just before the > partition of Berlin was completed. Interestingly the soldier was charged > and convicted in the GDR, not only for > desertion , but also for the theft of a complete set of uniform and > equipment. The FRG courts are rumoured to have > upheld the latter conviction, unfortunately I cannot verify this. > > Another was staged, Evgueni Khaldei, a propaganda photographer has > admitted in many interviews > that it was too dangerous to get the shot during continued fighting > around the Reichstag and that the whole > thing was redone a few days later. > The other version is that one of the Soviet soldiers on the original was > seen to be sporting 2 watches on one arm, having seen this > the censors in Moscow sent Khaldei back to shoot te flag scene again. > In similar fashion a lot of the footage of street fighting in Berlin > were shot afterBerlin fell and the Wehrmacht had surrendered . > Douglas > > R. Clayton McKee schrieb: > >> Philippe Orlent offers, in reference to Capa's Falling Soldier... >> >> >> >>>> And rumours go the photo is faked. >>>> >>>> >> >> >> That's been pretty exhaustively debunked. Richard Whelan, one of >> Capa's biographers, wrote extensively about the controversy in a >> prefatory essay to "Heart of Spain" which accompanied a show at the >> Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 1999. (I >> didn't see the show; I DO have the book.) >> >> The man's name was Federico Borrell Garcia; he was killed September >> 5, 1936 at Cerro Muriano. It seems that the cartridge cases he was >> wearing were unique to one particular unit, custom made to the design >> of its commanding officer... and that unit only lost one man in that >> battle. His younger brother, Everisto, was also in the battle and >> confirmed that the photograph was his brother and that it matched >> precisely the description he had been given of his brother's death. >> Other family photographs confirm identities. >> >> It's real. >> Albest, >> >> Clayton >> >> --- >> R.Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com >> PhotoJournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com >> P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 >> Houston, TX 77257-1900 pager 281/510-3588 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > > -- > Ihre bevorzugten Shops, hilfreiche Einkaufs-Hilfen und gro?artige > Geschenk Ideen. Erleben Sie das Vergn?gen online einzukaufen mit > Shop@Netscape! http://shopping.netscape.de/shopping/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >