Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yup. On 1/28/08 3:01 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > Personally, I think if a country goes to way its citizens need the > "unvarnished" truth. We all make mistakes and we all live with them > Unfortunately, some mistakes are more notable than others. There are > times though the grief caused by getting an image wreaks more havoc > than the image itself. :-( > > B. D. Colen wrote: >> Unfortunately not. It was in Arlington, VA, right, or Falls Church...just >> outside the city...I do know that Adams long-regretted the shot and the >> grief it caused Loan in later years. >> >> >> On 1/28/08 2:17 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Did you every eat in his D.C. restaurant? >>> >>> slobodan dimitrov wrote: >>> >>>> It is, Lt. Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan. >>>> >>>> Photographers should leave the writing of history to historians, and >>>> then quote them. >>>> >>>> Journalist, on the other hand, should leave analysis to historians, as >>>> the also lack the foundational background to put two and two together. >>>> s.d. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:41 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: >>>> >>>> Good Lord, Howard - What is so improbable that someone might shoot two >>>> people dying on approximately the same spot if the photographer was >>>> crouched >>>> nearby, camera pointed toward the spot? >>>> >>>> I think what puzzles me the most about all this is not whether or not >>>> it is >>>> real, but the seeming compulsion on the part of some to insist that it >>>> is >>>> not. >>>> >>>> How is it that Eddie Adams managed to push his shutter release at the >>>> precise instant the Gen. Lon's bullet entered the skull of the VC >>>> captive? >>>> Was that execution staged for Adams? Was he complicit in it? >>>> >>>> How did Bob Jackson happen to be in precisely the right position to >>>> get that >>>> astounding photo of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald? Was he tipped ahead >>>> that the >>>> shooting would take place? >>>> >>>> I don't think anyone asks those questions, yet, if one believes that >>>> uncritical "acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is >>>> inadequate, >>>> >>>>> irresponsible journalism" is the only way to view the possibility >>>>> that Capa >>>>> >>>> shot - sorry - two people on the same spot, how can one deal with >>>> those other >>>> two astounding coincidences? >>>> >>>> B. D. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1/28/08 11:21 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Howard >>>>> >>>>> I knew some good would come from my recent generosity in the collection >>>>> plate. Even the damn clouds are in identical formations. Too much >>>>> cogitation and too little evidence. Any one who has worked an interview >>>>> knows the ease of proving their original point of view. Especially, >>>>> when >>>>> dealing with such antiquities. Where the hell are Scully and Mulder >>>>> when >>>>> we need them? :-) >>>>> >>>>> Walt >>>>> >>>>> Howard Ritter wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Strange that the the writer's painstaking research and cogitation >>>>>> weren't accompanied by even a passing question about how ONE >>>>>> photographer happened to snap the shutter at the moments of the deaths >>>>>> of TWO different soldiers within a few minutes at the VERY SAME SPOT >>>>>> on a hillside. Not a word of skepticism on this point! Uncritical >>>>>> acceptance of this most improbable coincidence is inadequate, >>>>>> irresponsible journalism. >>>>>> >>>>>> To my mind, the second and lesser-known photograph is prima facie >>>>>> evidence of several iterations of a staging. Unfortunately, this piece >>>>>> does nothing to resolve the controversy. >>>>>> >>>>>> --howard >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 27, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Tarek Charara wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> There was this essay posted here a few months ago: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For whatever it's worth... :^) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> All the best from the south of France! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tarek >>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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