From: Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
> Talk of HCB - I know I told the list about seeing the Magnum at 50 Years
> retrospective with the print of the grinning kid with the wine bottles ("Rue
> Muffon" or something like that).
rue Mouffetard.
Yes, well, I was close. 1 out of 2 syllables ain't bad. And the first syllable, too! See, this comes back to our "titles" convo of last week. I can never remember ~other people's~ titles either. Whatever it's called, it'll always be "The Grinning Kid with the Wine Bottles" to me. <g>
> Someone actually accused Capa of purposely shaking his camera for those > D-Day photos, for dramatic effect.
It refers to the excuse "Life" made on publishing his D-Day photos that the fear of battle meant he couldn't hold his camera steady. He was more angry about that than about the ruined photos.
And, as one critic wrote (paraphrasing liberally): Capa was on the heaving deck of a landing craft, which reeked of the vomit of nervous soldiers, after having crossed the English Channel in unexpectedly rough seas, had just jumped chest deep in water, was being shot at, was trying to maneover through and across barbed wire, and was bumping into Allied soldiers: and they think he had to ~purposely~ shake his camera?
His 'autobiography' is called 'Slightly Out of Focus'. He is supposed to have said that it was better for a war photographer if your pictures were slightly out of focus because it looked more convincing, as if you had been in greater danger, so you could charge more for your pictures.
Maybe I should become a war photographer. I've already got the "OOF" thing down pat (well, according to Shel, anyway <g>).
cheers, frank
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