Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Paul, I think what you said here sums up the whole issue much better than anything else. up Walt p.s. regrading my recent post, when you have this kind of insight you can do with research. :-[ > */ > I think this Capa is quite different to the consummate professional > who waded ashore on Omaha. /* > > Incidentally, I didn't mean to intimate that Capa wouldn't have known > whether the Soldier was shot or not. Sorry if I gave that impression. > > P. > > ******* > Paul Hardy Carter > www.paulhardycarter.com > www.digitalrailroad.net/phc > +44 (0)20 7871 7553 > ******* > > On 22 Mar 2006, at 14:23, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> Why 'worry' about it? Because, to some degree, Truth still matters. >> And by the way - a combat photographer sure as hell knows if he's >> just shot >> a guy who's just been shot, or if he posed the guy. And IF Capa posed >> the >> guy - and for the Xth time, I believe in the integrity of the photo, >> that >> act calls into question the entirity of his body of work as a war >> photographer. And frankly, I think that that body of work, and the >> risks he >> routinely took, which ultimately cost his life, are as close as we will >> ever come to "proof" that the photo is real. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >