Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No. But I was tempted to buy a bottle of beer from former Prime Minister Ky at his liquor store in Southern California. s.d. On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Walt Johnson 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