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Subject: [Leica] Capa's Spanish War shot of Falling Soldier....
From: charcot at comcast.net (Charcot)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:01:16 -0700
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In our local paper today there was an editorial by George Will on Capa's 
photo- cutting thru all the verbage he thought it was a shame that it was 
"faked" given Capa's hard won reputation. And that it was a shame he did 
this for political reasons.

Not sure what I think

ernie
On Nov 15, 2009, at 1:32 PM, slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> Even if it was, it's no problem for me.
> W. Gene Smith had a clause in his contract which stipulated no flash use.
> On that shot of Schweitzer, at the table with a light, Smith popped a 
> flash off the floor to light the background.
> They do what they had to do to fill whatever requests, needs, etc.
> S.d.
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
>> LA Times did a write up on it today....
>> 
>> Some photo lab did an exhaustive study and claim it was staged....  Is 
>> that
>> the currently accepted theory?
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i at earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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