Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo
From: "Griffith, Lucian" <griffil1@anz.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:28:10 +1000

Correction - now that I think about it - the full set wasn't printed - it
was just written about.  What was printed was the alternative version, taken
from the french magazine (sorry, forgotton which) a month or so after the
photos were taken.
cheers,
Lucian G.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Griffith, Lucian 
Sent: 21 June 2001 12:07
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo


There was an article about Capa's soldier death photo in the weekend
supplement of The Age newspaper here in Melbourne about a year ago.  From
memory it repoduced the complete roll, which had the soldier posed in
numerous different falling / dying moments, suggesting without much doubt
that the photo was staged.  There was also an image reproduced from a French
magazine published very soon after the photographs were taken, which was a
similar photo - but not the same.  This suggests that Capa only settled on
the frame used for "Death of a Loyalist Soldier" after a few versions had
already been published.

Fake? Real? Set-up?  Who cares?  Where do you draw the line?  In the end the
meaning is imposed by the viewer.

cheers,
Lucian G.

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