Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] Capa's Spanish War shot of Falling Soldier....
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:30:51 -0600
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The only way we'll ever "KNOW" is for someone to go ask the man, then 
come back and report.

And even then there will be those who'll call THAT a lie, if it suits 
their purposes better.

Will IS an expert on lying and twisting for political purposes, 
however...  an equally hard-won and well-deserved reputation.




> 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.
> 
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