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Re: [Digital BW] decisive moments, ansel etc

2005-03-09 by Peter Marquis-Kyle

Djon wrote:
> David Douglas Duncan, a name few here may  know, destroyed most of
> Robert Capa's D-Day photos while a lab tech at Life. Which may say
> something about photography Vs technicial work :-)

Hi Djon. I know the name of David Douglas Duncan -- a couple of his books are on
a shelf in this room -- but I had never heard that it was he who screwed up
Capa's D-Day negatives. Can you quote a reference for that story?

Peter Marquis-Kyle
www.marquis-kyle.com.au

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