Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Chandos for directing us to this article. I just read parts I and II on-line and viewed the Leica shot of the young Marine Richard Sutter in the church. As much as I love still photography, there are very few photographs that have significant emotional impact for me. This is one of those photographs. It is as if, as the article says, we are looking into the soul of this young soldier. Thanks very much. John McLeod - ---------- >From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] Interesting series in the Washington Post >Date: Mon, Jul 20, 1998, 8:28 PM > > Folks, > >I'd like to call your attention to an extraordinary series running >presently in the Washington Post: "Peace Church, Vietnam, An American >Journey." > >This story follows the attempts of Robert Sutter to recreate the last days >of his brother, Richard, who was killed in Vietnam in 1967. Of special >interest to this group is the presence and photography of Frank Johnston, >whose photo of Richard Sutter, a scared, tired Marine, graced the >front-page of the Post in '67 and has been widely reprinted. In the first >of these articles, Johnston talks about using his Leica in Peace Church, >during the Vietnamese assault on the position. > >In any even, it's a marvelous example both of journalism and >photo-journalism, and it well merits a visit to www.washingtonpost.com, >where the story and its photos are posted. > >Highly recommended! > >Chandos > > >Chandos Michael Brown >Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies >College of William and Mary > >http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~cmbrow/