Robert Capa Livres

Il est reconnu internationalement comme le plus grand photographe de guerre. Ses images de la guerre civile en Espagne et du débarquement allié en Normandie sont célèbres. Correspondant des grands journaux illustrés, Life, Colliers ou Holiday, il a suivi tous les conflits, en Chine, en Israël et en Indochine où il meurt tragiquement en 1954. Par leur charge émotive, ses images dépassent la vérité historique et ouvrent la voie au photojournalisme contemporain.

In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa recounts his terrifying journey through the darkest battles of World War II and shares his memories of the men and women of the Allied forces who befriended, amused, and captivated him along the way. His photographs are masterpieces -- John G. Morris, Magnum Photos' first executive editor, called Capa the century's greatest battlefield photographer -- and his writing is by turns riotously funny and deeply moving. From Sicily to London, Normandy to Algiers, Capa experienced some of the most trying conditions imaginable, yet his compassion and wit shine on every page of this book. Charming and profound, Slightly Out of Focus is a marvelous memoir told in words and pictures by an extraordinary man. schovat popis

Oversize hardback book with dust jacket titled CHILDREN OF WAR, CHILDREN OF Photographs of Robert Capa. Edited by Cornell Capa & Richard Whelan. Published by Bullfinch Press in 1991 - first edition. See photographs (7) of this book on main listing page. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-1-middle) rareviewbooks

Robert Capa is one of four new titles published this September in Thames & Hudsons acclaimed Photofile series. Each book brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. Hailed by The Times as finely produced, the books are printed to the highest standards. Each one contains some sixty full-page reproductions, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography.

In the late 1940s novelist John Steinbeck and photographer Robert Capra forged a travelling partnership that took them beyond the empty polemics of the Cold War into the real Soviet Union, where they reported on the everyday lives of ordinary citizens trying to rebuild their lives and hopes after the devastations of World War II. This book records, in words and pictures, the results of their journeys.

Prepared to accompany an exhibition that opened at the Asia Society in New York City in 1999, and is scheduled to travel to many venues through 2002, this stunning presentation of photos incorporates work from a long list of eminent photographers; complementing them is an intriguing essay by Rae Yang (East Asian studies, Dickinson College), who was born in 1950, in Beijing and was a member of the Red Guards before emigrating to the United States. The images begin with photos of leaders during the late 1930s, and move forward to the present day. The format is 12x10.5 inches. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In an almost novelistic fashion, the pictures--presented chronologically--tell as much about the photographer as they do about the times Capa was chronicling. --Margarett Loke, "ARTnews" "His coverage of the Spanish civil war established Capa's reputation as a peerless battlefield photojournalist... But he was also a man who loved making pictures of beautiful women, famous men and grand parties. Often overlooked when discussing the Capa legacy, those too, were his life's work. Both Capas--the raconteur of high society and the fearless witness to war--are evident in "Robert Capa: Photographs." The two sides of Capa's work may seem irreconcilable, but they're not. He was recording one world. His own." --Allison Adato, "Life Magazine"

Once a cult-status rarity, Capa’s classic, impassioned Spanish Civil War photobook is available again with new, high-quality image scans and supplementary research Robert Capa’s Death in the Making was published in 1938 as a poignant tribute to the men and women, civilians and soldiers alike, fighting in Spain against Franco’s fascist insurrection. The book included only one year of images from the Republican position, but covered the spectrum of emotions of a civil war, from the initial excitement to the more harrowing realities of modern warfare. But over time, after World War II and rising anti-communist paranoia in the United States, association with the Spanish Civil War was a liability and the book became obscured. Today, however, Death in the Making has reached cult status, not least because copies are hard to find (particularly ones with Capa’s famous Falling Soldier image on the dust jacket), but also for its passionate call to defend democracy. With new scans of all the images, this remastered facsimile of the original edition reproduces the original layout by photographer André Kertész, the original caption text by Capa and preface by writer Jay Allen. The muddy 1938 publication is entirely transformed by high-quality printing to reflect the beauty and pathos of the original intention. This edition also includes a new essay with new research on the making and the reception of the original book, and a complete checklist identifying the author, location and date of each image. The most important new information is that Robert Capa and Gerda Taro are not the only photographers in the book, but also included was work by their good friend and colleague Chim, later known as David Seymour.

A Budapesten született fotográfus, Robert Capa 1948 őszén készített riportot szülőföldjéről egy amerikai magazin számára. A szovjetizálódó Magyarország fotókkal gazdagon illusztrált bemutatását a fordító, Fisli Éva utószava és jegyzetei segítenek elhelyezni a korban. Capa riportjában izgalmasan keverednek az otthonosság és az idegenség, a szórakoztató stílus és a tragikus történelmi események egymásnak ellentmondó rétegei: „Vidám utunk volt. Csaba mindent tudott a földről, Rózsa bácsi minden tudott az útszéli vendéglőkről, ahol jó bort és fűszeres kolbászt adtak. Útközben Teddy White okos kérdéseket tett föl a termés minőségéről, az ifjú Csaba egy stencilezett pamfletet olvasott a kapitalizmus hanyatlásáról és bukásáról, Rózsa bácsi pedig pajzán dalokat énekelt, és két nóta közt olykor kulákellenes beszédeket rögtönzött. Én fordítottam.”