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Guest Post 35: Patrick Peccatte on Philippe Villéger Hypothesis (a)

[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 […]

Farewell to Billie the Bengal

Long-time and regular readers of this blog may remember our cat Billie, who made occasional appearances in my posts, serving as a mascot of sorts for it. She joined our household on May 9, 2012, exactly ten years to the day before her unexpected departure therefrom. […]

Spring Ahead: Bits & Pieces 2022 (1)

If, as seems quite possible now, the hubristic ineptitude of a mediocre ex-KGB officer brings post-Soviet Russia to its knees and reveals it as a second-class power, you could serve up slices of that irony (without air quotes) at summer cookouts across the free world and have people queuing for seconds right up through Labor Day weekend. […]

Jerry Uelsmann (1934-2022): A Farewell

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. […]

Guest Post 34: Charles Herrick on Capa’s D-Day (w)

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. […]