Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: timatherton at theedge.ca (Tim Atherton)
Date: Tue May 11 11:43:37 2004
 
> Ohmigod, not that again. That duck has been shot down and eaten. :-)
> See, among other things, Richard Whelan's essay, Robert Capa In Spain,
> in the book "Heart of Spain - Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spainish
> Civil War, From The Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte
> Reina Sofia, published by Aperture in 1999.
>

+ about ten years of past discussions on the LUG...

And no - the flag raising over Iwo Jima wasn't faked/posed either - before
you ask.... (and yes - Dorothea Lange "posed" the Migrant Mother and Child)

now - that all that out of the way!

Now - there are those who suggest the HCB man jumping the puddle was
posed... :-)

(oh and Kertesz posed his "lovers on the bench" among others and Winogrand
directed some of his "street pix")

tim
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