At 06:39 PM 1/18/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
>regarding image manipulation...
>Another example: Alfred Eisenstadt, a famous photojournalist who
>photographed for Life Magazine, has a very famous photograph, V-J Day,
>that shows a sailer kissing a nurse. This was presented as photojournalism,
>or Eisenstadt capturing the moment of a sailer and nurse who were strangers
>in the street becoming so excited by the end of the war that they celebrated
>with a long kiss. However, after Eisenstadt died, a the fellow who was
>the sailer in that picture came forward and said that the whole thing was
>posed and setup.
>
Nice try,
Eisenstaedts negative set has been printed showing the sequence of shots
leading up to and including the one used. The strip is continuous and this
is definitely not a "posed" shot. In addition both the sailor and the nurse
have been interviewed on camera in NY recently - this was their only
encounter- and it was spontaneous. Can't believe some people will go to
these ends to discredit a photographer.
Barry H
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