Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've repeatedly said I believe the Dying Soldier is real, Raimo, but according to most of what's been written, there was 'posing' going on prior to that point. In fact, there has been some suggestion that running on the open slope for Capa's camera is what got the Dying Soldier dead. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Raimo K" <raimo.m.korhonen@uusikaupunki.fi> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:05:56 To:"Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again Sounds like you have not seen the pictures. Not much posing. Are you of the type who stands up in rifle fire? All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again > Especially after they spent all that time posing.. > > Raimo K wrote: >> Yep! >> There are images of the same group of soldiers - yes, waving guns and >> lookin relatively happy, possibly the fallen soldier among them - but >> those are taken before he was hit. Why there were not more images of >> falling soldiers, I cannot say, because I have never been in a group of >> soldiers, in running assault downhill... >> All the best! >> Raimo K >> Personal photography homepage at: >> http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "EPL" <manolito@videotron.ca> >> To: <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:42 PM >> Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again >> >> >>> The falling soldier image has always struck me as real, because it is so >>> strangely a split instant out of life. It is not a beautiful photo. It >>> is >>> weird, the way pictures of people while they are eating look weird, in >>> that >>> oddly human sort of way. >>> >>> If Capa was trying to fake some kind of compelling, meaningful statement >>> for >>> propaganda purposes, he could easily have orchestrated and composed >>> something far more obviously graphic, and we would have recognized it as >>> a >>> set up, like those Nat Geo pictures with perfect placement of background >>> elements. >>> >>> Emanuel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information