Digital BW, The Print

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

I wish I could document that quote. It's not in Images of War, the
best photo book ever published IMO...thanks for reminding me to look
through it again...I just got Capa's wonderful new Magnum book, it
didn't share the cursed name either. MIGHT have been an old
photography magazine from WWII that my mother had (her 1940
Kodachromes look great today).

"...the doctor asked,"is this the first American correspondent killed
in Indochina?" I said yes. He said,"It is a harsh way for America to
learn." John Mecklin / Time-Life / May 25, 1954 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
Marquis-Kyle" <peter@m...> wrote:
> 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