Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep! There are images of the same group of soldiers - yes, waving guns and lookin relatively happy, possibly the fallen soldier among them - but those are taken before he was hit. Why there were not more images of falling soldiers, I cannot say, because I have never been in a group of soldiers, in running assault downhill... All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "EPL" <manolito@videotron.ca> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:42 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again > The falling soldier image has always struck me as real, because it is so > strangely a split instant out of life. It is not a beautiful photo. It is > weird, the way pictures of people while they are eating look weird, in > that > oddly human sort of way. > > If Capa was trying to fake some kind of compelling, meaningful statement > for > propaganda purposes, he could easily have orchestrated and composed > something far more obviously graphic, and we would have recognized it as a > set up, like those Nat Geo pictures with perfect placement of background > elements. > > Emanuel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >