Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]MJS wrote: > A cheap shot, and a canard. No, the picture wasn't "staged": it was a > shot of the second flag-raising. The first flag had been too small to > be > readily visible from the rest of the island, so a "battle flag" (One Big > Momma, and who among us knows the dimensions?) was substituted, and the > Rosenthal's shot is an unstaged recording of that elevation. There are > pictures, incidentally, of the "first" flag-raising, as well: my > father's > best friend in college was one of the folks involved in this one. The first flag measured 54 inches by 28 inches, the second was 8ft by 4ft 8 inches. See Harold Evans' book 'Pictures On A Page', page 146. I hereby submit my application for the LUG 'No Life', section. :-) David Morton | "Times are bad. Children no dmorton@journalist.co.uk | longer obey their parents and David.Morton@openconsulting.co.uk | everyone is writing a book." (+44) 171 917 6272 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)