Re: MacArthur

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 09:06 PM 6/22/2000 EDT, LACarr@aol.com wrote:
>I am glad to find out that it was not staged as I have herad so often. I 
>guess when you get a photographer on the beach and have him set up for the 
>picture of MacAuthur coming ashore It does not mean it was staged.  I have
no 
>idea how much staging there was if any. I was only writting what I had heard 
>for many years.


Mydans wasn't "set up on shore":  there is a rather famous picture of
several photographers clustered around MacArthur immediately before he
landed, and Mydans is the one to MacArthur's immediate right.  Mydans and
several other photographers rode a separate landing craft in, beached
immediately ahead and to the starboard of MacArthur's landing site, and ran
over to document MacArthur and Osmena wading ashore.  They were on site a
matter of seconds ahead of MacArthur.

Mydans, of course, was using a Rolleiflex Automat camera, so prep time
wasn't necessary.

Marc

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