Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: "Is there anyone out there who can absolutely confirm he asked this "model" to reenact the jump 50 times? If the truth is he did, I almost don't want to know as he becomes just like the rest of us instead of the brilliant "Decisive Moment" photographer we admire for his quickness of trigger finger." Is it a FACT that he asked the guy to do jump many times. I am truly, truly doubtful of him setting this up. But what do I know? Did anyone see that HCB issue of American Photo? There's a picture in that issue (pg. 45) of printer George Fevre's hands holding that negative. Looks like HCB was in a car or buggy or something, shooting from afar. through a window. By looking at the stuff that was cropped out (at least in every version of that photo I'd seen), it seems crazy to think that it was set up. That is, wouldn't HCB have gotten much closer to fill the frame as best he could if he did, in fact, have 50 chances at it? Cary Conover Monroe, Michigan