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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: ahgraves at prodigy.net (Allen Graves)
Date: Wed May 12 15:41:17 2004
References: <LNBBLBNFHNEHGFKFMALGGELDLBAB.timatherton@theedge.ca>

With digital, there are no contact sheets. <grin>

Allen

P.S. I don't know what this means either.





>  > IF it was faked - and based on the present evidence, I believe it was
>>  real - but IF it was fake, then he indeed disguised it as something - he
>>  disguised it as a photograph of a soldier who had just been shot, dying
>>  in combat. Period.
>>
>
>interesting parallel discussion on another (photojournalist) list with this
>about the HCB/Puddle shot:
>
>>  So did Cartier Bresson.  You need to see the contact sheets.
>>  I've seen a contact sheet of a famous Cartier Bresson shot.
>>  A man jumping over a puddle, which would seem to be a good example
>>  of the 'decisive' moment but in fact the contact sheet shows
>>  36 attempts at the shot with the subject jumping over, repeatedly
>>  until the the shot was in the bag.
>
>whatcha think?
>
>(the poster assures me he saw the contact sheet...
>
>tim
>
>
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