Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Absolutely love to see it.. slobodan dimitrov wrote: > If you have Portraits, 1976, by Avedon, check out the 5 8x10 > verticals stitched together of the Mission Council, Saigon, 4/27/71. > The best and the brightest. Kubrick couldn't of done better. > Walt, I think I owe you an image. I went to the Nikon Carcasorium in > Yorba Linda, CA, the day after the dignitaries' funeral event. The > library was open to the public. His grave was still a pile of dirt, > waiting for the headstone. I shot it with an M4-P, 35mm 'cron, on > color neg. What made the shot were the feet and legs of little > children playing tag around the dirt. The occasional misses left tiny > little foot marks on the dirt. A very moving image of my former > commander in chief, sigh! > s.d. > > > On Jan 29, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > > Interesting enough our media created as many characters with Viet Nam > as Kubrick did with Strangelove. Bo Dai, Big Minh, The Nhu boys and > Madame Nhu, least we forget the burning bonze. I think Stanley missed > the boat with Full Metal Jacket. Should have been more like > Strangelove. Sellers could have done a good Nixon. :-) > > slobodan dimitrov wrote: >> His Liquor store bellied up in 1984. I guess I missed my chance also. >> Though you have to admit, it would been like a scene out of Dr. >> Strangelove to have him in back of that counter ringing up six packs. >> The scarf would been icing. >> s.d. >> >> On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:12 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: >> >> Hell, I saw him and the Mrs. at Hue in 1966. He was wearing a black >> flight suit with a purple scarf.. A ver photogenic guy,wished I'd >> had a Leica then. :-) >> >> slobodan dimitrov wrote: >>> No. But I was tempted to buy a bottle of beer from former Prime >>> Minister Ky at his liquor store in Southern California. >>> s.d. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: >>> >>> Did you every eat in his D.C. restaurant? >>> >>> slobodan dimitrov wrote: >>>> It is, Lt. Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan. >>>> >>>> Photographers should leave the writing of history to historians, >>>> and then quote them. >>>> >>>> Journalist, on the other hand, should leave analysis to historians, >>>> as the also lack the foundational background to put two and two >>>> together. >>>> s.d. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:41 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >