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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed May 12 16:10:40 2004

No, there are CDs or hard drives with all the images. ;-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Allen Graves
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:40 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Best known photo ?


With digital, there are no contact sheets. <grin>

Allen

P.S. I don't know what this means either.





>  > IF it was faked - and based on the present evidence, I believe it 
> was
>>  real - but IF it was fake, then he indeed disguised it as something 
>> - he  disguised it as a photograph of a soldier who had just been 
>> shot, dying  in combat. Period.
>>
>
>interesting parallel discussion on another (photojournalist) list with 
>this about the HCB/Puddle shot:
>
>>  So did Cartier Bresson.  You need to see the contact sheets.  I've 
>> seen a contact sheet of a famous Cartier Bresson shot.  A man jumping

>> over a puddle, which would seem to be a good example  of the 
>> 'decisive' moment but in fact the contact sheet shows  36 attempts at

>> the shot with the subject jumping over, repeatedly  until the the 
>> shot was in the bag.
>
>whatcha think?
>
>(the poster assures me he saw the contact sheet...
>
>tim
>
>
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