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Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Sun Jan 27 15:28:35 2008
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Taking a shot? Looks like the funny hat he wears in the other images to me.

Raimo K wrote:
> Yes. The images before that have been published, I have seen a book 
> that icluded those. And if you look closely at the picture of the 
> fallen soldier, you see that he has taken a shot.
> All the best!
> Raimo K
> Personal photography homepage at:
> http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again
>
>
>> I've repeatedly said I believe the Dying Soldier is real, Raimo, but 
>> according to most of what's been written, there was 'posing' going on 
>> prior to that point.
>>
>> In fact, there has been some suggestion that running on the open 
>> slope for Capa's camera is what got the Dying Soldier dead.
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Raimo K" <raimo.m.korhonen@uusikaupunki.fi>
>>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:05:56
>> To:"Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again
>>
>>
>> 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 raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
In reply to: Message from manolito at videotron.ca (EPL) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
Message from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
Message from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
Message from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)
Message from raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K) ([Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again)