[Leica] Best known photo ?

[paul at paulhardycarter.com (Paul Hardy Carter)]

Without question the "jumper", it's actually called "Behind the Gare St Lazare", is one of the most miraculous pictures ever taken, and a vastly better picture than the boy with the bottles. I've promised myself that next time I have ten grand to spare I'll buy a print of it and spend two hours a night with a bottle of wine looking at it.

Still reckon Boy with Bottles is better known, though.

P.

At 18:00 -0400, 10/5/04, TTAbrahams@aol.com wrote:
> In my estimation the best known and most reproduced photo is Korda's shot of
>Che Guevara. Shot with a M2 and a 90/2,8 Elmarit. The mage is heavily
>cropped. Every student room in the 60's and the 70's had one of those posters
>thumbtacked to the wall! According to Korda Che's slightly stunned look is due to a
>bit of stagefright and also to a pending asthma attack. There is a little known
>fact about Che, he made his living for a while as a photographer, using Nikon
>rangefinder cameras. The "other" Cuban photographer Raoul Corralles has
>pictures of Che with a Nikon S2 and a 5cm f1,1 lens. Raoul said that "I am a better
>photographer, but Korda took the picture that everyone knows and good for
>him".
> The Nick Ut shot of the napalmed girl has an interesting subset. Both Nick
>ut and the girl left Vietnam and Nick Ut now lives in California and the girl
>lives in Ontario, Canada and is married with kids. The Eddie Adams shot of the
>killing of the prisoner and Nick's shot of the girl probably did more to
>create resistance to the US involvement in Vietnam than any other coverage.
> HCB's most well known shot is probably "Man jumping over the puddle". In the
>US the kid with the wine-bottles is very well known, but in Europe and the
>rest of the world it is mostly the "jumper" that is shown as an example of HCB's
>prowess. It could be that a kid carrying the family dinner wine is not a big
>deal in France. Happens all the time.
> A more modern icon is also the picture of the man with the shopping bags
>facing down the chinese army tank at Tienaman Square.
> In the 60's there were two schools of student lodging decorations (at least
>in Europe). If you were a left leaning, anti Vietnam war adherent, you
>thumbtacked the Korda Che shot to the wall. If you had aspirations of more
>intellectual reputation, you stuck Youssuf Karsh shot of Albert Einstein up instead. It
>also stopped parental complains of hair care fairly effectively.
>Tom A
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