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Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Sun Jan 27 11:06:01 2008
References: <C3C210A3.1A95%manolito@videotron.ca><004001c86103$1d76cbe0$86cb9253@Korhonen> <479CCD9C.7040307@waltjohnson.com>

Sounds like you have not seen the pictures. Not much posing.
Are you of the type who stands up in rifle fire?
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again


> Especially after they spent all that time posing..
>
> Raimo K wrote:
>> Yep!
>> There are images of the same group of soldiers - yes, waving guns and
>> lookin relatively happy, possibly the fallen soldier among them - but
>> those are taken before he was hit. Why there were not more images of
>> falling soldiers, I cannot say, because I have never been in a group of
>> soldiers, in running assault downhill...
>> All the best!
>> Raimo K
>> Personal photography homepage at:
>> http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "EPL" <manolito@videotron.ca>
>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:42 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again
>>
>>
>>> The falling soldier image has always struck me as real, because it is so
>>> strangely a split instant out of life. It is not a beautiful photo. It
>>> is
>>> weird, the way pictures of people while they are eating look weird, in
>>> that
>>> oddly human sort of way.
>>>
>>> If Capa was trying to fake some kind of compelling, meaningful statement
>>> for
>>> propaganda purposes, he could easily have orchestrated and composed
>>> something far more obviously graphic, and we would have recognized it as
>>> a
>>> set up, like those Nat Geo pictures with perfect placement of background
>>> elements.
>>>
>>> Emanuel
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
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Message from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
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