{"id":9150,"date":"2019-01-05T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2019-01-05T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:42:48","slug":"d-day-anniversary-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=9150","title":{"rendered":"D-Day Anniversary Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

A D Coleman<\/em> has broken his unusual 3 month on-line silence to return to the long campaign by him and his colleagues to correct the myths about Robert Capa<\/em>‘s D-Day pictures (and the related issue of the Falling Soldier), realising that:<\/p>\n

“with the 75th anniversary of D-Day coming up on June 6, 2019, I\u2019ve just realized that I\u2019m likely to feel compelled to correct an endless stream of repetitions of the Capa D-Day myth, which has so permeated our culture that this investigation has barely begun to dislodge it.”<\/p>\n

This particular post, Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (39)<\/a>, examines a recent article in a Le Monde<\/em> supplement by Cynthia Young<\/em>, the curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography in New York, and as such a leading figure in studies of Capa.\u00a0 Her ‘Les deux ic\u00f4nes de Capa’<\/em>, published in October 2018 completely ignores all recent evidence which has established beyond any reasonable doubt the true circumstances under which\u00a0Capa\u2019s\u00a0 1937 Spanish Civil War ‘Falling Soldier’ and\u00a0 his 1944 D-Day ‘The Face in the Surf’ were made.<\/p>\n

Coleman\u00a0berates Young for “not just ignoring contrary evidence and doubling down on the myth but actually adding spurious details to it<\/em>“, pointing out that her activity is “fatal to credible scholarship<\/em>“, and is extremely damaging to the reputation of one of photography’s major institutions, the ICP.<\/p>\n

The post also looks again at\u00a0John Loengard<\/em>‘s contibution to the myth in his 1994 book\u00a0Celebrating the Negative<\/em> which includes Loengard’s photograph of the hands of Cornell Capa and the 8 surviving negatives above a light-box, along with his commentary which, as Coleman comments, included the myth of the melting negatives that any professional photographer should have dismissed out of hand.\u00a0 Certainly many of us had.<\/p>\n

The post\u00a0ends with a rather more amusing D-Day story with a picture of the Royal Mail \u00a31.25 stamp from a series “showcasing the \u2018Best of British<\/em>\u2019 “. The picture\u00a0of allied\u00a0troops knee-deep in water as they waded ashore from a landing craft\u00a0 with its caption, ‘D-Day: Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore’ was outed within minutes of its posting on Twitter as showing a US landing on a beach\u00a0in Dutch New Guinea (now in Indonesia), and the design had to be abandoned.<\/p>\n

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (39)<\/a><\/p>\n

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A D Coleman has broken his unusual 3 month on-line silence to return to the long campaign by him and his colleagues to correct the myths about Robert Capa‘s D-Day pictures (and the related issue of the Falling Soldier), realising that: “with the 75th anniversary of D-Day coming up on June 6, 2019, I\u2019ve just … Continue reading D-Day Anniversary Approaches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9154,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/9154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}