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Subject: [Leica] OT: Was this photo posed? A long fascinating essay...
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Oct 25 12:18:37 2007
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Wonderful story indeed.
But the second one looks as if the canon balls on the road were added  
in retouching.
They did know how to do that manually, you know.
Nevertheless, truth will never be known.

Philippe



Op 24-okt-07, om 17:46 heeft Adam Bridge het volgende geschreven:

> ...by Errol Morris on the NYT blog.
>
> I greatly enjoyed this long (think New Yorker length) series of three
> essays that are published on the NYT blog pages.
>
> They concern a pair of photographs made during the Crimea War by Henry
> Fenton and were part of a discussion by Susan Sontag about the
> photographer manipulating the photographic scene.
>
> You might find it worth reading. I know I did:
>
> <http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the- 
> chicken-or-the-egg-part-one>
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/283ory>
>
> Enjoy
>
> Adam
>
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