[Leica] Best known photo ?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Yes, it DOES matter. If in fact the photo was posed, faked, then it is
no longer "the best war photo of all times," because it is no longer a
war photo. There have been countless thousands of posed war photos that
are as good or better - single frames from movies. The point of this
photo is that it is real - if it is.That Capa actually captured this
instant that so encapsulated war, death, sacrifice, futility, etc.
Doesn't matter? Good God. What does matter?

As I would take Whallen over someone writing for Time any day of the
week. Go read the Whallen essay.

B. D.

Doesn't matter?!!

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Orlent
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:49 PM
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In fact, it doesn't really matter, does it?
Quoting:     
 Robert Capa, in Focus
Blood and Champagne details the remarkable life of the 20th century's
greatest war photographer By MARYANN BIRD, Time Magazine june 30th,
2003:

"It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to
show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate
over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says
Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death. "The Falling
Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political
bias and idealism," he writes, adding: "Indeed, he would soon come to
experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all
witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably
confront." "
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> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:34:17 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?
> 
> 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.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Philippe Orlent
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 2:29 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Best known photo ?
> 
> 
> And rumours go the photo is faked.
> 
>> From: Thinkofcole@aol.com
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:10:01 EDT
>> To: lug@leica-users.org
>> Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
>> 
>> This 1936 photograph, by Robert Capa of a Spanish soldier at the 
>> moment of death during the Spanish Civil War, was taken, I believe, 
>> with a Leica and is regarded among the great photograph of all time.
>> -- bob cole _______________________________________________
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