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From: "P. J. Alling"
Subject: Re: A new claim that Capa's falling soldier was a set-up
One wonders if he would have been a famous photographer if he hadn't
staged that picture.
William Robb
It's hard to know. It's also hard to know if he actually staged it after
more than 70 years. You'd have to find the exact spot the photo was
supposedly taken and use a lens of the same effective focal length and do
an exhaustive series of photographs and do serious photo interpretation to
be sure one way or another, and still the issue would be in doubt. It
looks to me that the evidence cited is totally anecdotal and after this
amount of time has elapsed would be highly suspect.
It looked to me from the article that they had found the exact spot (within
a few yards anyway), and that said spot was several miles from the actual
fighting.
At least that's how I read it, anyway.
William Robb
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