Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/09

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Subject: [Leica] HCB negative
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:09:47 +0930
References: <BANLkTikz8jG4f4_ByT0oXOt+jNaiCTiKNQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTin3qx1TV1+NZbhMTamoziEqib-PXA@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=474yMWV2FtCXA_9BXXJNWnY-E8Q@mail.gmail.com>
 
HC-B says directly that photo is cropped in a number of interviews,
and discusses why he did it.

There are all kinds of reasons why things go wrong with posed or
unposed photos.  This neg doesn't provide any information on whether
this was posed - for that you need the full original film strip.

Marty

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:
> IMO, there are two myths about HCB that this neg manages to blow away:
>
> - "I never crop," I'm pretty sure it's even there in the HCB documentary
> that people just recently posted. Well, it looks like cropping to me!
>
> - HCB had a man jumped 36 times (or 100 times) to get that picture. If he
> did, wouldn't he have avoided the crop issue?
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] HCB negative)
Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] HCB negative)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] HCB negative)