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Subject: [Leica] WAS: enough with Olympus NOW HCB
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Wed Mar 22 08:42:25 2006
References: <C045D418.E3A3%bdcolen@comcast.net> <e6cc7316df34cc5eeb2d9d570a8481ff@paulhardycarter.com> <5400-SnapperMsg4EA12C31C0470073@[70.194.119.245]> <af4a03ec325ba7e935b633e63301f02b@paulhardycarter.com>

Paul,

I think what you said here sums up the whole issue much better than 
anything else.

up
Walt

p.s. regrading my recent post, when you have this kind of insight you 
can do with research. :-[

> */
> I think this Capa is quite different to the consummate professional 
> who waded ashore on Omaha. /*
>
> Incidentally, I didn't mean to intimate that Capa wouldn't have known 
> whether the Soldier was shot or not. Sorry if I gave that impression.
>
> P.
>
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> On 22 Mar 2006, at 14:23, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
>> Why 'worry' about it? Because, to some degree, Truth still matters.
>> And by the way - a combat photographer sure as hell knows if he's 
>> just shot
>> a guy who's just been shot, or if he posed the guy. And IF Capa posed 
>> the
>> guy - and for the Xth time, I believe in the integrity of the photo, 
>> that
>> act calls into question the entirity of his body of work as a war
>> photographer. And frankly, I think that that body of work, and the 
>> risks he
>> routinely took, which ultimately cost his life, are as close as we will
>> ever come to "proof" that the photo is real.
>
>
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