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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed May 12 11:39:22 2004

On 5/12/04 6:14 AM, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> The Iwo photo was NOT faked - go do some reading. There were TWO flag
> raisings; the second, which Rosenthal shot, was the second - the idea
> was to raise a flag large enough to be seen all over the island. This
> particular "faked photo" story was laid to rest several years ago.
> 
> And the fact that there were other people shooting with 35 doesn't mean
> that Capa isn't the one who created the form, in the sense of making it
> work, and bringing it to world attention. Keep in mind that HCB always
> said that he was NOT a photojournalist. In fact, at the time Magnum was
> formed, Capa specifically advised HCB to call himself a photojournalism
> because, he told HCB, no one would buy photos from him if he described
> himself as a surrealist photographer - which was what he really was, and
> thought of himself as.
> 
> B. D.
> -----Original Message-----

surrealist photographer?!


Mark Rabiner
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