[Back in August of 2021 Patrick Peccatte introduced me, via email, to Philippe Villéger. Villéger is a member of the informal collective devoted to annotating the historic WWII images of Normandy posted online at PhotosNormandie, another internet project to which Peccatte contributes. (For more about Peccatte, Villéger, and the PhotosNormandie project, see the details at […]
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[Back in August of 2021 Patrick Peccatte introduced me, via email, to Philippe Villéger. Assiduous followers of this investigation will remember Peccatte, a specialist in photographs of Normandy, as the reader who, at his own his French-language blog Hypotheses, published a response to the Capa D-Day Project that sent it viral in France in summer […] Issued at that particular historical moment ([in 1967], “Post-Visualization” virtually guaranteed that Jerry Uelsmann would find himself in the eye of a storm for years to come; not only did it declare its author’s intent to serve as a spokesperson for the approach described therein, but it implied his willingness to have his work treated as a litmus test for the theory’s validity, an example of its application in practice. […] The challenge consists not so much in proving that Landry did not come ashore on June 6 but in finding evidence that he did land on D-Day. So far, the evidence for a D-Day landing is scant, error-prone, and far from convincing. […] Given the vague, highly generic and often clearly incorrect details of his narratives, it appears that much of LeSueur’s reporting was merely a mishmash of secondhand accounts which he gathered from those who landed before he did, and which he imperfectly incorporated into his own story. […] |
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