Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/21

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Subject: Re: Capa's cameras
From: "Charles E. Albertson" <chucko@ricochet.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 22:07:41 -0700

At 09:13 PM 9/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:54 AM -0500 on 9/19/97, Eric Welch wrote:
>>
>> Actually, it was a young photojournalist, whom I can't remember his name
>> right now, but he became famous photographing the Viet Nam war. Larry
>> Burrows, maybe?
>>
>Eric,
>
>That's what I understood, that it was Larry Burrows. Ironic that he should
>have died in VietNam, also. Yeah, I have the book on Burrows (yes, I
>collect 'em, I guess).
>
>Chris Morrow
>
Richard Whelan's bio of Capa says that, although Larry Burrows was working
in the Time-Life darkroom that day (he was 18 at the time), he wasn't the
one who fried the negatives. Doesn't say who did.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.