Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oliver: It was not re-enacted for the photographer. The small flag was replaced with a larger one and Joe Rosenthal took the photo as the flag was being replaced: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3l.htm Tina At 08:17 AM 4/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I am disturbed by the readiness to condemn the photographer without taking >into account the broader context in which the result of his image >manipulation was propagated. I agree with Martin that there is a system >problem. Assigning one hundred percent of the blame to the combat >photographer and zero to the picture editor back home strikes me as too >simplistic. >How would we view today Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize winning, iconic >photograph of raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi? It was reenacted (see > http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm >and other URLs on the same topic). >When I went to the Signal Corps Photo School in 1953, Rosenthal's picture >was discussed as the rare acceptable exception to the basic rule of "truth >in photography". As others have pointed out, things were a lot simpler in >"the old days": the still photographer handed in his exposed sheet film or >pack with a description of "who, what, where, when" to the darkroom people; >I handed in my exposed 50 foot or 1000 foot rolls of 35mm film that included >a slate with the same basic information (otherwise it was useless). In >either case some editor took over after the film was processed; that was the >system, and it certainly did not operate in near real time as today's >combination of telecommunication and digital imaging does. >How would we design a system to acquire, edit, and publish combat images >from a location many time zones away, given limited bandwidth to transmit >them, and deadlines to publish? >Oliver Bryk > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html