Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:17:19 -0700

No way - it was posed.  You know, like the war photog in the trench who asks his subject to "Just lift your head up a little higher, the light's better...a little higher...that's right... Whoa!  Good shot!"

Paul

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mxsmanic [mailto:mxsmanic@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:49 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo

Alan Hull writes:

> I cannot see how anybody can have reactions
> quick enough to have captured that image ...

I think he just got lucky, and I don't think he ever claimed otherwise.