Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Especially after they spent all that time posing.. Raimo K wrote: > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >