Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]InfinityDT@aol.com wrote: > > I'll wager 1/2 of American people will think it's Charles Manson and the > other 1/2 Jim Morrison. If Leica wanted a BW photograph with media-icon > status they could've used Eisenstaedt's sailor-kissing-nurse, or the > Vietnam-era Pulitzer shot of the prisoner being shot in the head WOW! I'll bet Leica's glad you're not in their PR department!! I can see it now ... Eugene Smith's pic of the Marine and the baby, and the Eddie Adams pic of the execution in Saigon. And the cutline: "Leica. There at the beginning. There at the end." Truth in advertising? Naaaa.... Jim Bauman Just there.