Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/21

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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:25:33 +0200

Yeah - and when the pose was right, the bullet hit. I find this not quite believable.
The other negatives in this film have been published (and they show the man alive but not posing before the hit), the location and time established, the man identified and his next of kin interviewed... etc. Contrary to many speculations the picture is real.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

- -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
Lähettäjä: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Vastaanottaja: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 21. kesäkuuta 2001 0:03
Aihe: RE: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo


>No way - it was posed.  You know, like the war photog in the trench who asks his subject to "Just lift your head up a little higher, the light's better...a little higher...that's right... Whoa!  Good shot!"
>
>Paul
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mxsmanic [mailto:mxsmanic@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:49 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo
>
>Alan Hull writes:
>
>> I cannot see how anybody can have reactions
>> quick enough to have captured that image ...
>
>I think he just got lucky, and I don't think he ever claimed otherwise.
>