Famous Picture a Fake ?

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Famous Picture a Fake ?

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Post by von thoma » 14 Nov 2015, 21:17

I think it's a fake picture make for propaganda purposes...
What do you think ?

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Post by OpanaPointer » 14 Nov 2015, 22:23

A flexible rule of thumb is if the photographer is ahead of the troops, it's staged. Not one hundred percent of the time, but reliably so.

Compare this one to Frank Capa's picture of a Spanish soldier getting killed.

http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/#/capa/
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Post by von thoma » 14 Nov 2015, 23:52

Hum ....the Capa's picture has been discovered as a montage, recently.

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/480628/ ... o/montaje/
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Post by Mark in Cleveland, Tn. » 15 Nov 2015, 05:34

Yep, spot on assessment von thoma,

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Post by OpanaPointer » 15 Nov 2015, 14:01

von thoma wrote:Hum ....the Capa's picture has been discovered as a montage, recently.

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/480628/ ... o/montaje/
That was the thrust of the page I liked.
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Post by ChristopherPerrien » 15 Nov 2015, 19:52

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Post by OpanaPointer » 17 Nov 2015, 02:09

If so they're very likely returning from a fight. Otherwise the cameraman is ahead of the attack and standing up.
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Post by Loïc » 17 Nov 2015, 21:42

indeed the cameraman was very lucky that bullets ignored him but...
it is a famous picture taken 12 years after from the movie Verdun, visions d'Histoire (1928) by Léon Poirier
so only a reenactment

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Post by ChristopherPerrien » 19 Nov 2015, 11:09

TY, Loic.

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Post by MLW » 19 Nov 2015, 13:09

Most WWI combat action photos are either recreations or taken during training.

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Post by OpanaPointer » 19 Nov 2015, 14:09

When they did "All Quiet on the Western Front" they were very proud of the realism of their battle scenes. They had studied US War Department footage and followed it faithfully.

They didn't bother checking or they'd have known that the WD footage was recreated, not original.
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Post by PF » 20 Jan 2016, 01:50

The World War I "Picture" is from a post world War I movie "Verdun" with actual War Veterans in the film!

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Post by MLW » 22 Jan 2016, 22:44

Thanks for the information!

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