Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/20/01 7:14 AM, Alan Hull at hull@telia.com wrote: > > I have always been fascinated by that photo because to me it screamed > FAKE. I cannot see how anybody can have reactions quick enough to have > captured that image unless he was taking a portrait of the soldier and > at the instant the shutter was pressed the poor guy took a bullet in > the chest. This is my opinion not of a photographer but as an > ex-soldier. I guess you have never seen the photograph of Jack Ruby murdering Lee Harvey Oswall. Another killing moment in photographic history. Since I was in front of Jackson that morning, using a motion picture camera, my film when examined frame by frame shows that Jackson's reaction allows for the barrel flash to preceding his exposure by just 1 frame (at 24 frames per second plus or minus). Yes, it is possible to capture a fatal moment on film. It is also possible, I suppose, that some unknown person has seen some roll of film as purported to have been described on this factual list, that no other documentation supports, that disputes a photo-journalistic icon of the 20th century which has been well studied. Happy snaps, Steven Alexander