[Leica] Best known photo ?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 2:30 PM -0400 5/12/04, Tina Manley wrote:
>At 09:25 AM 5/12/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>Well said Henning.
>>I am staunchly on your side and Philippe's,
>>and opposite of B.D., Mark, and others'.
>>To say that the image in itself looses its power
>>because it is staged, (which it is not) is like
>>saying a story is not good because it is fiction.
>>Do you guys only watch movies "based on a true
>>story" ?
>
>But, Phong, to write fiction and pass it off as true would be just 
>as wrong as staging a documentary photograph.  That's how several 
>journalists have gotten in trouble lately.  There should be a 
>definite line between truth and fiction in writing just as there 
>should be between staged and documentary photographs.
>
>Tina

I fully agree. I don't necessarily care whether a photo is staged or 
not (depends on circumstances, as does almost everything) but I want 
to be informed whether it was or not.

In the case of the Capa photo, it would in my opinion be just as 
powerful, but in a somewhat different way, had it been staged.

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