Re: [Leica] AA, HCB & Leicas

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

B.D.,

>>Having spent some time again with "Requiem" this weekend, I would suggest
that any Capa fans out there do the same, focusing particularly on the work
of Henri Huet - and Larry Burrows - and then consider how good Capa really
was or wasn't.<<

I was so taken with Roger Mattingly's photograph of Burrows in "Requiem" (p.
271) that I contacted him and bought an original print. He was very gracious
and told me about the photo as well as sending along a magazine review he
had written of "Requiem."

Bryan

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] AA, HCB & Leicas


>>  Capa,
>
>Having spent some time again with "Requiem" this weekend, I would suggest
>that any Capa fans out there do the same, focusing particularly on the work
>of Henri Huet - and Larry Burrows - and then consider how good Capa really
>was or wasn't.
>
>As I look at the work of those two, and at Capa's work, I come to the
>conclusion that Capa is so revered because he was there "first," not
because
>he was either the best or close to it.
>
>B. D.
>