Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/02
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To Art Peterson, Eric Welch
It's General Loan, not Lo. The full name of the general is Nguyen
Ngoc Loan.
Sorry for detracting from a most interesting discussion.
- - Phong
>From: Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 10:06:15 -0500
>Subject: Re[3]: [Leica] RE: Cartier Bresson and the 6 exposures.
>
>
> Eric,
>
> By "great photographer" I meant to suggest "great artist," not "great
> photojournalist." That the Eddie Adams photograph of General Lo's act
> would have, as you say, "no impact" if it had been a mere posed event
> illustrates my point. The impact of it is photojournalistic and not
> necessarily artistic.
>
>
>Eddie Adams' picture of General Lo killing the man in Vietnam would have no
>impact at all if the "dead" guy turned up as the cook in the General's
>pizza parlor in Washington D.C. years later.
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>