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Subject: [Leica] OT: World War II photography
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan dimitrov)
Date: Mon Sep 24 16:13:36 2007
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Then, how many of the images used in this series were "official"?
This is a time when the correspondent, whether from LIFE or the New  
York Times, was also in uniform.

s.d.


On Sep 24, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Oliver Bryk wrote:

> See  http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/  for a selection  
> of photos
> from WWII.
>
> I personally did not meet Allied photographers until 1945 by which  
> time
> almost every one of them had a captured Leica or Contax. The Signal  
> Corps
> photographers still used their Speed Graphics for "official" (i.e.,  
> posed)
> photographs.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
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