Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/21

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Subject: Re: Nachtwey and Middle East shot [was Re: [Leica] Black paint ...]
From: Douglas Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 21 Oct 2000 15:21:35 -0700

On Sat, 21 October 2000, George Hartzell wrote:

> 
> Tina Manley writes:
>  > [...]
>  > Speaking of James Nachtwey - this photograph is being discussed over on the 
>  > LEG.  The photojournalist in the middle in the white shirt is James Nactwey:
>  > 
>  > http://www.msnbc.com/modules/slideshow/TWIP_2000_1020_/slideshow.asp?fmt=&s=1&v=28
>  > 
>  > Click on photo #2.  What do you think?
> 
> After the weirdness of the juxtaposition of the photographers and the
> violence, two things stand out for me:
> 
>   1) amid all of the helmets and flak jackets, Nachtwey's kneeling
>      there bareheaded and in a *bright white* shirt.
> 
>   2) it seems like he's smiling (but I can't be sure).
> 
> g.

... and only one photog, behind Nachtwey and to his right, is using a camera that does not have a pentaprism.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt
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