Tag: Robert Capa
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Episode 35: A. D. Coleman (Historical Photography)
Episode 35: A. D. Coleman (Historical Photography) A. D. Coleman and the Robert Capa D-Day Project exploring the history, legacy and questions about the photographs of Robert Capa at Normandy in 1944. via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2024/02/08/episode-35-a-d-coleman-historical-photography/ Today we chat with A. D. Coleman, photography…
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NPPA: Robert Capa, The Action Film?
Link: The tale begins in Paris in 1935, according to Variety, and will be a “snapshot of a torrid two-year romance with Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.” According to Fortes’ novel, Taro and Capa, both refugees fleeing the Nazis, had the shared intention when they met of becoming photographers and that the outbreak…
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Capa’s Demons – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Capa only shot 11 frames of the landing while staying at the most only 30 minutes on the beach. Coleman’s conclusion is that he must have panicked under the heavy deadly fire and quickly took shelter in a barge returning to England
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Robert Capa : Capa at the 37
Link: Alberto Giacometti, Ata Kando, Re Soupault, Robert Capa, Emile Muller, Bernard Matussiere … It is with this word so just that one day, Henri Cartier-Bresson saluted in writing the work of memory of the latter: “to Bernard, another « habité » of the rue Froidevaux and in memory of Capa. Best regards, Henri. ” Why…
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Debunking the Myths of Robert Capa on D-Day
Debunking the Myths of Robert Capa on D-Day I want to give you a brief overview of an investigation that began almost five years ago, led by me but involving the efforts of photojournalist J. Ross via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/02/16/debunking-the-myths-of-robert-capa-on-d-day/ Our project, in a nutshell, dismantles the 74-year-old myth of Robert Capa’s actions on D-Day, June…
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Robert Capa’s Lost Negatives and Photographic History | Time.com
The Incredible Journey of Thousands of Lost Robert Capa Negatives Read an excerpt from the new book ‘Eyes of the World’ via Time: http://time.com/4703870/robert-capa-excerpt/ At an exhibit of photographs of the Spanish Civil War, a man tentatively approaches Jerald R. Green, a professor of Spanish and Mexican art. He tells Professor Green that he believes…
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Robert Capa’s ‘Falling Soldier’ Photo Was Turned Into This Monstrosity
Robert Capa’s ‘Falling Soldier’ Photo Was Turned Into This Monstrosity One of legendary photographer Robert Capa’s most famous photos is The Falling Soldier, a 1936 picture from the Spanish Civil War that’s said to show a via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/09/robert-capas-falling-soldier-photo-was-turned-into-this-monstrosity/ Well, someone saw fit to turn the iconic photograph into a giant and bizarre 25-foot-tall (7.5m)…
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Robert Capa’s Iconic D-Day Photo of a Soldier in the Surf | TIME
How The Iconic D-Day Photos Were Almost Lost Forever Watch the video that shows how famed photojournalist Robert Capa’s negatives were almost lost via Time: http://time.com/120751/robert-capa-dday-photos/ Two men quickly came and helped him reach cover, one of whom, Riley later recalled, had a camera around his neck. The photographer was Capa, and somewhere between the…
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War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day
War Photographer Robert Capa and his Coverage of D-day John Morris, relives the terrible loss that followed Capa’s extraordinary feat. Marie Brenner reports. via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day Seventy years ago, the great war photographer joined the first slaughterhouse wave of D-day, recording W.W. II’s pivotal battle in 11 historic images of blur and grit. But…
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Vintage TOP: Access
Vintage TOP: Access [First published April 2006] – Robert Capa, Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936 One of the fundamental problems of photography not necessarily encountered by any other type of artist is the problem of access:… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2014/01/vintage-top-access.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 My judgement is that by most indications…
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Robert Capa’s Unpublished Color Photographs Debut at ICP
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/01/13/robert-capas-unpublished-color-photographs-debut-at-icp/#1 According to Cynthia Young, the show’s curator, ICP holds more than 4,000 color Capa transparencies of varying formats — 35mm, square format, even 4×5 sheet film. ”He really had two cameras around his neck at all times — three even, often in…
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What Does Robert Capa’s “Close Enough” Rule Mean Today?
What Does Robert Capa’s “Close Enough” Rule Mean Today? | PDNPulse “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” Robert Capa famously said. But was he right? To celebrate the 100th birthday of Robert Capa and the upcoming show “Capa in Color” at the International Center of Photography, Magnum Photos has via PDNPulse:…
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Robert Capa: Finding a Fearless Photographer’s Voice
Robert Capa: Finding a Fearless Photographer’s Voice In a newly surfaced recording, Mr. Capa describes photographing under Fascist fire and other perils, like hiding in a bathroom to read a New York Times review panning his book. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/finding-a-fearless-photographers-voice/?_r=0 The studio recording of the “Hi! Jinx” NBC radio interview was with the husband-and-wife…
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Robert Capa at 100
Link: Robert Capa at 100 | Powered by FeedMagnet Every day, we will post a Robert Capa image, a renowned photographer’s visual “response,” and then give the floor to you. Contribute your visual response(s) by uploading an image of yours on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter and tagging it #GetCloser100.
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Le Monde: Robert Capa’s War Chest
Link: Le Monde: Robert Capa’s War Chest | Le Journal de la Photographie They were thought to be lost forever. After an incredible journey, 4500 negatives from the legendary photojournalist Robert Capa and his friends Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, resurfaced in New York in 2008
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John Morris, ‘Robert Capa e il mio D-Day
Link: l’Espresso – John Morris, ‘Robert Capa e il mio D-Day’
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Capa’s Road
Capa’s Road | LUCEO Link: http://blog.luceoimages.com/2011/10/capas-road/ he will always remain the sole reason as to why I became a photographer. For this reason it was only natural for me to attempt this humble pilgrimage to the final day of his life. I have often looked at the map of Vietnam staring at the small province…
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Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century
BJP: What is it with Hungary? As the Royal Academy’s forthcoming exhibition will show, this small European country punched well above its weight in the photography world in the middle of the last century, giving us people such as Robert Capa, László Moholy-Nagy, André Kertész, Brassaï and Martin Munkácsi.
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Robert Capa's Spain, Inside a Suitcase – NYTimes.com
In “Images of War, Finally Unpacked,” Holland Cotter reviews an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography in New York, which documents wartime life in Spain between 1936 and 1939 through the eyes of three photographers — Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour (Chim) — in images no one seems…