Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good Lord, Howard - What is so improbable that someone might shoot two people dying on approximately the same spot if the photographer was crouched nearby, camera pointed toward the spot? I think what puzzles me the most about all this is not whether or not it is real, but the seeming compulsion on the part of some to insist that it is not. How is it that Eddie Adams managed to push his shutter release at the precise instant the Gen. Lon's bullet entered the skull of the VC captive? Was that execution staged for Adams? Was he complicit in it? How did Bob Jackson happen to be in precisely the right position to get that astounding photo of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald? Was he tipped ahead that the shooting would take place? I don't think anyone asks those questions, yet, if one believes that uncritical "acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is inadequate, > irresponsible journalism" is the only way to view the possibility that Capa shot - sorry - two people on the same spot, how can one deal with those other two astounding coincidences? B. D. On 1/28/08 11:21 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > Howard > > I knew some good would come from my recent generosity in the collection > plate. Even the damn clouds are in identical formations. Too much > cogitation and too little evidence. Any one who has worked an interview > knows the ease of proving their original point of view. Especially, when > dealing with such antiquities. Where the hell are Scully and Mulder when > we need them? :-) > > Walt > > Howard Ritter wrote: >> Strange that the the writer's painstaking research and cogitation >> weren't accompanied by even a passing question about how ONE >> photographer happened to snap the shutter at the moments of the deaths >> of TWO different soldiers within a few minutes at the VERY SAME SPOT >> on a hillside. Not a word of skepticism on this point! Uncritical >> acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is inadequate, >> irresponsible journalism. >> >> To my mind, the second and lesser-known photograph is prima facie >> evidence of several iterations of a staging. Unfortunately, this piece >> does nothing to resolve the controversy. >> >> --howard >> >> >> On Jan 27, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Tarek Charara wrote: >> >>> There was this essay posted here a few months ago: >>> >>> <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html> >>> >>> For whatever it's worth... :^) >>> >>> All the best from the south of France! >>> >>> Tarek >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information