Re: [Leica] How much difference is there....really

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

If you visit the following site, there is a link that will take you to a
Real Audio clip of Eddie Adams describing the taking of his famous
photograph and its aftermath.

www.webster.edu/~barrettb/vietnam.htm

Bryan

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] How much difference is there....really


> From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 05:22
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How much difference is there....really
>
>
> > Oh please, don't be so gullible.
>
> I didn't say that I believed it, I was simply wondering what the real
story was.
>
> > First Eddie Adams' photos and now Nick UTs!
>
> Has the same thing been said of Eddie Adams' photos?
>
> Perhaps there is a conspiracy of television journalists out there that
wants to
> distract attention from great still photographs.  Now, that's something I
could
> almost believe, given the relative ruthlessness of television!
>
> > Unbelievable. People ought to do some checking a bit>
> > before spreading such rumors.
>
> Sure, but with whom?  A lot of great photos stand in isolation--there is
no
> background information on what they represent or how they were produced.
We
> know it was a Vietnamese girl who had been napalmed, but nothing else
(although
> I know that she is alive and well today).  We know that one Vietnamese guy
was
> shooting another, but nothing else (although I read that the guy being
shot was
> indeed a bad guy, with several murders under his belt).  We know that the
lady
> on her dusty farm looked worried about the future, but nothing else
(although
> I've read that she was only 25 years old!).
>
> What happens when the original photographers die without ever documenting
the
> circumstances of their greatest photos?
>
>   -- Anthony
>
>