Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Taking a shot? Looks like the funny hat he wears in the other images to me. Raimo K wrote: > Yes. The images before that have been published, I have seen a book > that icluded those. And if you look closely at the picture of the > fallen soldier, you see that he has taken a shot. > All the best! > Raimo K > Personal photography homepage at: > http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again > > >> I've repeatedly said I believe the Dying Soldier is real, Raimo, but >> according to most of what's been written, there was 'posing' going on >> prior to that point. >> >> In fact, there has been some suggestion that running on the open >> slope for Capa's camera is what got the Dying Soldier dead. >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Raimo K" <raimo.m.korhonen@uusikaupunki.fi> >> >> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:05:56 >> To:"Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again >> >> >> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >