Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bert: Yes Eddie Adams does still live and is very active. has one on the most comprehensive workshops in the world for young and coming photogs. He is very much a devotee to the "N" system and is featured in their Master Series Videos. Try punching up some combinations to see if you can hit his URL or do a search with YaHoo. He says that the military took his camera and film to do test to determine the speed of the bullet (they did return everything). This was very much a decisive moment, He explains it in full on the Master Series Tape. Cheers Wilber GFTBE Bert wrote: > >or the Vietnam-era Pulitzer shot of the prisoner being shot in the head > >(not sure if that was taken with a Leica or not). > > It was. Do you have the Magic Moments book (40 years of Leica M)? This > photo is in this as well. I wouldn't call that photo a "magic moment", HCB > would agree it's more like a "decisive moment". I wonder what Eddie Adams > thinks (does he still live?) of this particular photo. > > About Che, there's a story I once heard. Rene Burri (of Magnum fame) once > did a photo shoot of Che. When he was in Cuba again several years later he > saw one of his pictures from that shoot inside a bank. He took a picture of > it and was proptly arrested. When he explained he took the original > pictures everything was forgiven and he was treated as an honoured guest. > > Bert K.