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Even in his lifetime, Robert Capa was described as the greatest war photographer in the world. It was an ironic achievement for a man who loathed war, but to this day, one better embodies the photographer as cultural soldier and one's work better encapsulates the violence and brutality of the twentieth century than Capa. This volume presents a rich selection of his work as a war photographer, starting from the images that established his fame: his documentation of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1939 and the Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion in 1938. It continues on to World War II--including Capa's stunning photographs of the D-Day landing in Normandy, where on June 6, 1944, he swam to shore alongside the second assault wave of American troops--and on to the first Arab-Israel conflict in 1948, before concluding with the First Indochina War, in which Capa joined a French regiment and eventually lost his life. Today, the wars of the twentieth century may have transformed from wounds into scars, but Capa's images remain as devastating as ever, describing the trauma of war through a civilian's eyes, and reminding us that despite years of loss and destruction, humanity manages to persist.Born Endre Friedmann in Hungary, where he was nicknamed capa (shark) at school, Robert Capa (1913-1954) adopted the name by which he is remembered in the early 1930s, following his relocation from Berlin to Paris. His first published photograph was a portrait of Leon Trotsky giving a speech on The Meaning of the Russian Revolution in Copenhagen, in 1932; his most famous work was his record of D-Day, at Omaha Beach. Capa was killed by a land mine, during an assignment on the First Indochina War.

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Silvana
ISBN-10
8836622887
ISBN-13
9788836622887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Richard Whelan
Format
Paperback
Language
English, Italian, French, English, French, Italian
Subject
Fine Arts / Art History
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Textbook

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Place of Publication
Milan
Content Note
100 B/w
Date of Publication
15/04/2012
Country of Publication
Italy

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