Word: contax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a Tommy...
...Actually Is." At the front he wisely eliminated most of the equipment necessary for time-consuming photographic work. He simply shot fast, wide and sometimes almost blindly, with a battery of miniature hand cameras (Contax and Rolleiflex). Says he: "I have no right to deceive the people back home; they're entitled to look at the thing as it actually is and that's what I photograph...