[sumo] oshi-dashi'd message

["Christopher J. Basten" <cbasten@statgen.ncsu.edu>]

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:50:27 -0700
From: Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [sumo] Konishiki in SI

At 9:41 PM -0500 4/21/04, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

Jeanne:  Hi!  Many thanks for your response.  Yes, I think it was
Charlie Cole and not Chris Cole who took that famous picture.  I met
Charlie Cole in the International Press Club in Tokyo in about 1986
or '87.  Later, when I lived in Seoul, I worked in an office with his
girl friend -- I can't remember her name.  Yes, Charlie Cole was with
Newsweek at the time the picture was taken.

I think that the other photographer (Jeff Widener) was not the
original photographer.  But I really can't shed any light on the
situation -- just my 20-year-old recollections.

Thanks for your response,

earle
*



>Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote:
>>At 6:02 PM -0500 4/21/04, Jeanne Hedge wrote:
>>>The current issue of Sports Illustrated includes a large
>>>section celebrating 50 years of sports photography (the
>>>magazine is celebrating its 50th anniversary). They've
>>>picked what they consider to be the best sports photo of
>the
>>>last 50 years, and then each decade has its own section
>>>of "great" photos (with a best of decade photo too).
>>>
>>>The 1990s section includes photographer Chris Cole's 1991
>>>photo of Konishiki. It's a half-page color photo,
>presumably
>>>taken during Shikiri. Konishiki, squatting, is facing the
>>>camera, staring intently at his opponent. His opponent
>>>appears to be ready to begin - all you can see of him is
>his
>>>green mawashi, back, and the back of his head.
>>
>>
>>*
>>Isn't Chris Cole the photographer who took that amazing
>>photo in Tienamen Square -- with the line of tanks
>>advancing on a single person?
>>
>>Pulitzer Prize, if I remember correctly.
>
>I cheated and looked it up - and it's confusing. Charlie
>Cole from Newsweek apparently won awards (I couldn't find
>which) for his photos of the event
>(http://pdngallery.com/20years/photojournalism/04_charlie_col
>e.html), but the photo credit of it on the reference I read
>to get that information (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
>srv/newsweek/tiananmen.htm) was for Jeff Widener of the
>Associated Press. They sure look like the same photo to me -
>are Charlie and Jeff the same person?
>
>And then it turns out that Jeff Widener was a Pulitzer Prize
>finalist for the photo (1990: Spot News Photography), but
>the award itself went to the photo staff of the Oakland
>(California) Tribune for their photos of the "World Series"
>earthquake of October 17, 1989.
>
>
>I hope you're not as confused as I am...
>
>
>Jeanne
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