It's not rumor. There was another flag up there first.
But raising the second flag was not "staged".
Lieutenant Colonel Chandler Johnson, commander of the 2nd Battalion,
28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division ordered one of his company
commanders to seize the summit & raise the flag. That flag was
photographed by Staff Sgt. Louis R. Lowery for Leatherneck magazine
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal witnessed that flag being raised from
the beach on Iwo Jima (where he was accompanying the Marine Corps Task
Force 56 Commander) & asked to have the flag for a souvenir.
LTC Johnson ordered his company commander to send a platoon to the
summit to secure the first flag for the battalion and to raise a
replacement flag. The *FIRST* flag belonged to the Battalion.
Forrestal could take the second flag for a souvenir if he wanted one.
Associated Press Photographer Joe Rosenthal arrived at the summit of Mt.
Suribachi just as the Marines were preparing to raise that second flag.
He photographed that event without knowing it was the second flag.
He sent his film to Guam to be developed and transmitted it back to the
U.S. as a wire photo. AP distributed the photo in the U.S. without
knowing it was a replacement flag being raised.
The "staged" controversy is because Rosenthal took a group photo of the
Marines after they raised the flag & when asked if he had "posed the
photo" answered yes thinking he was being asked about the subsequent
group photo.
The flag raising was not posed.
Both flags are at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
On 4/6/2017 15:15, Gonz wrote:
Or the supposed staging of the flag being planted at Iwo Jima scene.
It was rumored to have been a smaller flag at first then the
photographer staged it with a bigger flag and other changes.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote:
Just viewed a Netflix series of great producer/director staging of scenes in
war II movies shot at government request.
As John states nothing new here.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Northeast"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Controversy around McCurry
Are McCurry's efforts as bad as this one?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030409.htm
Philip Northeast
www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au
On 6/4/17 1:26 pm, John Sessoms wrote:
Doesn't seem to me any of the images he's accused of manipulating were
represented as "photojournalism". His photos that were represented as
"photojournalism" were not manipulated.
The Afghan girl's photo was not manipulated when originally published in
National Geographic. That he might want to clean it up subsequently when
selling it as a poster doesn't bother me.
One could reasonably argue that all travel portraits, including the
Afghan girl are "staged".
I think the kind of "staging" he's being accused of has been common
practice from the invention of photography. It really wasn't an issue
back in film days. Seems to me it only became an issue when digital made
fakery possible for the average snap-shooter. The porter is actually
standing there with the suitcases on his head. Whether they were full or
empty at the time is to me beside the point.
Much ado about nothing ... or at least about very little.
On 4/5/2017 21:17, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
This was happening last year, but I didn't see it.
As far as I can tell, it was not discussed here. So, for those, who like
myself missed it completely.
Apparently, people discovered quite a few digital manipulations as well
as "staging" of the photos by Steve McCurry.
https://petapixel.com/2016/06/07/eyes-afghan-girl-critical-take-steve-mccurry-scandal/
(and links therein)
Enjoy!
Igor
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