[rollei_list] Re: If Capa ...with the Contax II
- From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:41:37 -0700
Yes, you have a point. But he died doing this, so for me it was a short
lived pursuit. He who dies with some good images still dies.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Robert Lilley <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> When it comes to Capa and others like him I tend to look at the total
> picture, not just the pictures he took. Capa had to sell himself to his
> backers, gather knowledge specific to his assignments, manage the logistics
> of getting where he was going, maintain the courage to just "be there" and
> deal with a multitude of personalities and field conditions, some friendly,
> some hostile - all this before he composed and took a singile picture. When
> I was a kid I remember a comic in Mad Magazine paying homage to great
> exploits of explorers and... the photographers behind the scenes. There was
> a cartoon of Hillary victoriously atop Mount Everest and the photographer,
> blue due to lack of oxygen with chattering teeth taking the happy snap - and
> never getting credit for having done the same thing Hillary did.
> Rob
>
> On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Peter K. wrote:
>
> I think many make Capa out to be a god. Personally I never found his work
> that great just that in death he was bigger than in life. Just my two cents.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> He seemed to use both the Contaxes and the Rollei in their ever ready
>> cases!
>>
>>
>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
>>
>> This is a photograph about Robert Capa holding his Contax II camera on a
>>> captured Japanese tank during the China war in 1938:
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/misteriosa-rosario/2166023177/sizes/o/
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>>
>>> --- El vie 25-sep-09, Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>> De: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Asunto: [rollei_list] Re: If Capa had digital
>>>> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Fecha: viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009, 12:41 pm
>>>>
>>>> --- El vie 25-sep-09, J M N <retinaiiic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Trick question:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> WHich camera did Capa use while photographing the
>>>>>
>>>> invasion
>>>>
>>>>> - Leica or Contax?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> According several sources, Capa had two Contax II cameras
>>>> with Sonnar 50mm lenses during the D-Day, he also used
>>>> Rolleiflex cameras during the war worldII and during the
>>>> Spanish Civil war.
>>>>
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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