Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26

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Subject: [Leica] Stories
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun Dec 26 16:52:24 2004
References: <20041226215749.044A54D3BF@mail.patmedia.net>
 
At 06:54 PM 12/26/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>It is all that and more, Neal - Knowing Smith, and the era, it may well
>have been posed, but so was the original Pieta, so what the heck.. ;-)

It was posed and artificially lit.  I read the story I think in Smith's 
biography.  It's still a very moving and effective photo.  Smith was beaten 
and almost died because of his work there.

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
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