1913-1954 concerned photographs photographer

books:

11 reviews
Robert Capa

H. Holt, 1947

The Incorrigible Capa
Slightly Out of Focus, the autobiography by legendary photographer Robert Capa, chronicles his experiences as a photographer for Collier's and Life magazines during World War II. Capa's adventure takes him from his comfortable bed in New York, across the Atlantic, into the African desert, to the beaches of Normandy and the liberation of Paris, through Germany, and finally to a posh London ...

CHINA: 50 Years Inside the People's Republic

4 reviews
Rae Yang

Aperture, 1999

A Feast for the Eyes, Mind, and Soul
Imagine if Ansel Adams had been interested in the interaction of nature and people in landscapes rather than the wilderness. Then, imagine that he had traveled widely in China from 1984 to 1999 to capture the country's image, history, and culture. Add a banquet camera and platinum printing using the tritone process. This will begin to give you an idea of what this book contains. I was ...

A Russian Journal

7 reviews
John Steinbeck

Topeka Bindery, 2003

Entertaining travel story
This is a great road trip story . . . that just happens to be set in Russia (and elsewhere in the Soviet Union). It is an amusing and thoughtful account of Steinbeck's travels with his good friend Robert Capa. As Steinbeck often noted in his works of nonfiction, he recounts merely what he saw, which may or may not be reflective of the experiences of others. Thus this is far more a narrative ...

Robert Capa, 1913-1954 (Icp Library of Photographers ; V. 1)

1 review
Robert Capa

Viking Pr, 1974

Very good
I was touched by the sensitivity of Capa and how he aproached the subject. He was always risking his life in the front line of a war and he was never afraid for his life. I got very emotional just watching the last shot that he took in the war of Vietnam just before he step on a minetrap! That was the begining of the end for the photographic family!

Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War

9 reviews

Aperture, 2002

Unbelievably Potent Photographs of Spain's Civil War
Capa is considered one of the fathers of modern combat photography. These photographs clearly verify that fact. The modern combat photographers that have come after were all aware of Capa's work and if they didn't overtly copy his style, they certainly used it as a foundation. The potency of these photographs is not so much the action they sometimes capture, but in the faces set in the ...

Robert Capa

4 reviews
Robert Capa, Cornell Capa, ...

Bungeishunju, 1988

Pure empathy
Ordinary people caught under extraordinary circumstances are what give these images the power that they have and elicit pure empathy from the viewer. Robert Capa earned his place in photographic history and left behind a body of work for us to consider...

Children of War, Children of Peace

1 review

Bulfinch Pr, 1991

There is always a "but" ...
I've bought this book because I thought it was a selection Robert Capa had made himself, but it is a posthumous work, giving an impression of what may be overlooked in other books - the photographs of children Robert Capa has made. So you have a stunning collection, every picture fine and well worth viewing, but, and this is what is for me personally a little bit disappointing, the ...