Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds like you have not seen the pictures. Not much posing. Are you of the type who stands up in rifle fire? All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >