The Mangelson and the Ward are clearly the same frame. The Leesons' shot is a different frame, you can tell my lining up the foreground with bits and pieces of the background. I would put it down to two cameras side by side, or misattribution, rather than to plagiarism.
There is a famous pair of photos taken at the same moment in Vietnam by Philip Jones-Griffiths and Tim Page that shows an example of something like this, and I'm sure there must be many others from photographers travelling in packs. This is an unpleasant image: Page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/29749724063 P J-G: https://mediastore3.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/b/2/1/0/NYC36062.jpg In fact, another good example is the stills of the 'tank man' of Tiananmen Square, for which Stuart Franklin won a World Press award, but other photographers on the same hotel balcony got much the same shot, with only minor differences. On 23 Dec 2018, at 20:34, ann sanfedele <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The Polar Bear Saga... My gallery first - scroll right after viewing the typtyich .. the last photo is the flipped version Bob found. THis is the first image in my gallery - to show you the screen shots I got side by side https://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/THE-THREE-BEARS-a-puzzlement/i-b89K7LG/XL here is the link to the photo on Mangelsen's web page, followed by the other two found by John and Bob W Ken got me to .... https://www.mangelsen.com/winter-solace-2446.html Bob's find : http://www.artsandartists.org/exhibitions/past-endangeredtreasures/ John found https://fineartamerica.com/featured/polar-bear-family-thomas-and-pat-leeson.html (where I took the screen shot from - I did all the wrok on that before seeing the link to the web page :-)) and , from the leeson's web page tinyurled for us. https://tinyurl.com/anns-bears I really feel the other two photographers were given permission to market these , or in the csae of Ward maybe a simple misattribution on the web, or they are simply ripping off Mangelsens work. Is it possible they all three were at that spot at the same time??? Something just aint right. ann -- ann sanfedele photography https://annsan.smugmug.com https://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
