Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] [Off-topic] General Lo [sic]
From: phong@doan-ltd.com (phong)
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 22:54:51 +0000

To Art Peterson, Eric Welch

      It's General Loan, not Lo.  The full name of the general is Nguyen
Ngoc Loan.
      Sorry for detracting from a most interesting discussion.

- - Phong


>From: Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:06:15 -0500
>Subject: Re[3]: [Leica] RE: Cartier Bresson and the 6 exposures.
>
>     
>     Eric,
>     
>     By "great photographer" I meant to suggest "great artist," not "great 
>     photojournalist."  That the Eddie Adams photograph of General Lo's act 
>     would have, as you say, "no impact" if it had been a mere posed event 
>     illustrates my point.  The impact of it is photojournalistic and not 
>     necessarily artistic.
>     
>     
>Eddie Adams' picture of General Lo killing the man in Vietnam would have no 
>impact at all if the "dead" guy turned up as the cook in the General's 
>pizza parlor in Washington D.C. years later.
>     
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>