Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Unfortunately not. It was in Arlington, VA, right, or Falls Church...just outside the city...I do know that Adams long-regretted the shot and the grief it caused Loan in later years. On 1/28/08 2:17 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > Did you every eat in his D.C. restaurant? > > slobodan dimitrov wrote: >> It is, Lt. Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan. >> >> Photographers should leave the writing of history to historians, and >> then quote them. >> >> Journalist, on the other hand, should leave analysis to historians, as >> the also lack the foundational background to put two and two together. >> s.d. >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:41 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: >> >> Good Lord, Howard - What is so improbable that someone might shoot two >> people dying on approximately the same spot if the photographer was >> crouched >> nearby, camera pointed toward the spot? >> >> I think what puzzles me the most about all this is not whether or not >> it is >> real, but the seeming compulsion on the part of some to insist that it is >> not. >> >> How is it that Eddie Adams managed to push his shutter release at the >> precise instant the Gen. Lon's bullet entered the skull of the VC >> captive? >> Was that execution staged for Adams? Was he complicit in it? >> >> How did Bob Jackson happen to be in precisely the right position to >> get that >> astounding photo of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald? Was he tipped ahead >> that the >> shooting would take place? >> >> I don't think anyone asks those questions, yet, if one believes that >> uncritical "acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is inadequate, >>> irresponsible journalism" is the only way to view the possibility >>> that Capa >> shot - sorry - two people on the same spot, how can one deal with >> those other >> two astounding coincidences? >> >> B. D. >> >> >> On 1/28/08 11:21 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: >> >>> Howard >>> >>> I knew some good would come from my recent generosity in the collection >>> plate. Even the damn clouds are in identical formations. Too much >>> cogitation and too little evidence. Any one who has worked an interview >>> knows the ease of proving their original point of view. Especially, when >>> dealing with such antiquities. Where the hell are Scully and Mulder when >>> we need them? :-) >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> Howard Ritter wrote: >>>> Strange that the the writer's painstaking research and cogitation >>>> weren't accompanied by even a passing question about how ONE >>>> photographer happened to snap the shutter at the moments of the deaths >>>> of TWO different soldiers within a few minutes at the VERY SAME SPOT >>>> on a hillside. Not a word of skepticism on this point! Uncritical >>>> acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is inadequate, >>>> irresponsible journalism. >>>> >>>> To my mind, the second and lesser-known photograph is prima facie >>>> evidence of several iterations of a staging. Unfortunately, this piece >>>> does nothing to resolve the controversy. >>>> >>>> --howard >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Tarek Charara wrote: >>>> >>>>> There was this essay posted here a few months ago: >>>>> >>>>> <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html> >>>>> >>>>> For whatever it's worth... :^) >>>>> >>>>> All the best from the south of France! >>>>> >>>>> Tarek >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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