Robert capa photographer biography book
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist.
The legendary war photographer Robert Capa carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures..
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
--Robert Capa
Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography is a brilliant portrayal of the career of the great war photographer who, at the time of his death in , had only one wish: to be an unemployed war photographer.
"It is not always easy" he said, "to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the suffering."
Born in to a Jewish family in Budapest, Endre Friedmann left home at 18 for Germany where he studied journalism and political science and worked in a photo agency darkroom.
In , Friedmann went to Paris where he shared a darkroom with Henri Cartier-Bresson and lived with Gerda Taro, also a photographer.
Robert Capa: Photographs is the first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers.Together they contrived the name and image "Robert Capa, famous American photographer".
Capa made several trips to document the Spanish Civil War, where he took the seminal image, "Death of a Loyalist Soldier" for which he was heralded as "the greatest war photographer in the world".
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