Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@home.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:39:01 -0700
References: <200106212113.RAA09187@poseidon_2>

Now...how did Pierre Trudeau know that Ted was going to be exactly
there.......oh, .....I got it.....his hair trigger reflexes, a
predisposition to premonitions, and his extraordinary luck.



Steve


> Hair-trigger reflexes, a predisposition to premonitions, extraordinary
luck - these
> are some of the qualities that distinguish the best photographers. It's
easy to
> question Capa's photo now that he is gone. Will any of you dare wonder
aloud how our
> own Ted Grant captured Pierre Trudeau sliding down the bannister? To me,
Ted's image
> is no less remarkable and, in some ways, equally historic. And it too is
100% real.
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal

In reply to: Message from "Emanuel Lowi" <mano@proxyma.net> (Vs: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo)