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Subject: [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times article)
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:33:59 -0800
Thanks, Stephan, for that correction. It expands my understanding a  
bit and makes me want to read more about that period.



Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA




On / January 27, 2008 CE, at 10:24 AM, Stephan Van den Zegel wrote:

> The New-York Times is slightly wrong (as usual) when describing Capa  
> and the
> others as communist minded...; they had more connection with the  
> Spanish
> anarchists or Poum members than with the few communists... (hence the
> Mexican connection to get the docs out of trouble). And to be more  
> precise
> on the famous picture it is not a republican soldier but of a  
> milician of an
> anarcho-syndicalist column (soldier would be a great offense for his
> memory)... a thing that the official communists would have love to  
> destroy
> the proof that it ever existed. I know it sounds a bit stupid to  
> make such
> an historical distinction... but for those who know the difference  
> it's like
> if a journalist was asserting that zuiko lenses where build to fit  
> on a
> Canon or Nikon body ;-)


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