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Subject: [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times article)
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:45 -0400
During a very recent visit to Waterstone's book store in Sheffield, England 
I spent quite a while leafing throuigh a two inch plus thick book of  Capa's 
black and white photos. Included therein is his famous "Death in Action" 
photo or so it is cited in my copy of Hugh Thomas's "The Spanish Civil War". 
The citation in Capa's book specified the exact date on which the photo was 
taken, the name of the soldier and the side for which he was fighting. There 
was no mention I  recall of the soldier being labelled as an anarchist.

As an aside, the Sheffield city fathers have erected a memorial, alongside 
those for the fallen in WW1, WW2 and Korea, to those local men who fell for 
the Republican cause. There is no mention of those who fell in support of 
the winning side.

John Hudson



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 5:54 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times article)


>
> And thanks from me, too, Stephan - and I hadn't noticed any problems with
> your English: no misplaced apostrophe, no past imperfect instead of
> conditional, seems fine to me!
>
> --
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Stephan Van den Zegel
> Sent: 27 January 2008 18:38
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times article)
>
>
> And thank you all for your understanding of my bad English (so many
> errors... aargh... I'm confused) stephan
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] De la part
> de Winsor Crosby Envoyé : dimanche 27 janvier 2008 19:34 À :
> olympus@xxxxxxxxxx Objet : [OM] Re: Robert Capa negatives found (NY Times
> article)
>
>
> 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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