Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes. The images before that have been published, I have seen a book that icluded those. And if you look closely at the picture of the fallen soldier, you see that he has taken a shot. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Capa or here we go again > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >