Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:34 PM 5/25/2007, Brian Reid wrote: > > >---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >Date: 25 May 2007 6:46:33pm -0400 >From: qwhozeiss@aol.com >To: lug@leica-users.org >Subject: 25 May > >Hello all, T. Mike Fletcher here. On this date in 1954, 25 May. >Robert Capa was killed when he stepped on a mine, in French >Indo-China. Later to be knowen as Vietnam. Capa was the first >American killed in Vietnam, and the first LIFE Magazine photographer >ever killed while on assigment. I though this note would give us all >a reason to have a drink or two on this day. > >Later, T. Mike Fletcher-------QWhoZeiss@aol.com Well, shuck the cornpone, lads. I"ve been trying to get Mike to rise from the dead for years, with indefinite success. And Brian manages to whap the table-cloth and Brother T Mike comes floating on in with a smile on his face which would never melt butter. Mike is a professional photographer who regularly shoots with Leica M and R, Hasselblad, Contax RTS, and Rolleiflex TLR gear. He has run the gamut and, as his wife owns the finest bakery in St Louis, his eternal happiness is guaranteed. Mike was also a good friend of Cornell Capa, Robert's brother, a noted photographic manager in his own right. Capa had dumped Leica after the Spanish Civil War and did most of his work thereafter with Contax and, later, Nikon RF's; at the moment of his death by a landmine, he had a Nikon RF in front with a Contax in reserve and nary a Leica in sight. Mike can give you the details though he has yet to supply me with the serial numbers off the Contax gear on him when he was killed, and there are others awaiting the Nikon numbers. Capa did occasionally use a Rolleiflex Automat, as well, as did Mike's late and good friend, Carl Mydans, before Mydans switched to Nikon. Someday, someone will make the Capas the focus of a proper academic study. Spare us that Kershaw book, a work as weak and indugent as are Kershaw's other works. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!