Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: paul at paulhardycarter.com (Paul Hardy Carter)
Date: Wed May 12 12:31:06 2004
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But surely the point about Capa's shot is that he didn't disguise it as anything. He just took a picture. Perhaps the sub who put the caption on the picture was the faker.

P.

At 2:36 pm -0400, 12/5/04, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Thanks, Tina, that's what -IMHO - a number of people seem to be missing.
>Great fiction - All Quiet On The Western Front, Henry V - and great art
>- Guernica, for example, can make extremely powerful statements, and
>have enormous impact. But they don't gain that impact by masquerading as
>fact.
>
>When fiction comes to the party masquerading as fact, truth goes home
>early.
>
>B. D.
>
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