If you like
photography ... you've got to get to know Robert Capa
According to the Britannica: Robert Capa's pictures of
war made him one of the great photojournalists of the 20th
century. "He
first established himself in Paris by representing his photographs
as the work of Robert Capa, a fictitious American photographer who
was so rich he refused to sell his work at normal prices. The
deception was soon discovered, but he retained the pseudonym.
Capa
first achieved fame as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil
War. ... In World War II he covered much of the heaviest
fighting in Africa, Sicily, and Italy for Life magazine, and his
photographs of the Normandy invasion are some of the most memorable
of the war. In
1947 Capa joined with the photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and
David Seymour to found Magnum Photos, the first cooperative agency
of international free-lance photographers. ... In 1954,
however, he volunteered to photograph the French Indochina war for
Life and was killed by a land
mine."
HIS BEST KNOWN
WORKS:
Slightly Out of Focus (American Autobiography
Series) by
Robert Capa
Heart of Spain : Robert Capa's Photographs of the
Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa
Robert Capa: Photographs by Robert Capa
A Russian Journal (Penguin Twentieth-Century
Classics) by John Steinbeck, Robert
Capa
ABOUT HIM: Robert Capa/
Photographs : Photographs by Henri
Cartier-Bresson,
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about Robert Capa
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital
Photography (if you're just
starting)
THE PHOTOJOURNALIST BEST OF
BREED LIST!
Associated Press Guide to
Photojournalism -- by Brian Horton;
Magnum: Fifty Years at the Front
Line of History: The Story of the Legendary Photo
Agency
by Russell Miller
Robert Capa/ Photographs
by Henri
Cartier-Bresson
Moments : The Pulitzer Prize
Photographs : A Visual Chronicle of Our Time -- by Hal Buell
Photojournalism, The
Professionals' Approach -- by Kenneth Kobre, Betsy
Brill
1968 Magnum Throughout the World by Eric Hobsbawm(Editor), Marc
Weitzmann
Migrations : Humanity in Transition
by Sebastiao
Salgado
Humanity and Inhumanity : The Photographic Journey of
George Rodger by George Rodger
Earth
from Above by Yann
Arthus-Bertrand
Brandt
: The Photography of Bill Brandt by Bill
Brandt
Inferno
by James Nachtwey(Afterword), Luc
Sante(Introduction)
Requiem:
By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina by Horst
Faas
The
Destruction of Penn Station by Peter
Moore
Robert
Capa: Photographs by Robert Capa
Slightly Out of Focus
(Modern Library) by Robert
Capa
Shutterbabe:
Adventures in Love and War by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Winterreise
by Luc Delahaye
1995
Working Press of the Nation : Feature Writers, Photographers &
Professional Speakers Directory
Hollywood
Candid: A Photographer Remembers by Murray Garrett, Bob
Hope
Galapagos
: Islands Born of Fire by Tui De Roy
The
Straits of Malacca, Siam, and Indo-China : Travels and Adventures of
a Nineteenth-Century Photographer (Oxford in Asia Hardback)
by John
Thomson
Kurdistan
: In the Shadow of History by Susan
Meisalis
Hutterite
: A World of Grace by Kristin Capp(Photographer)
LA
Habana by Pepe
Navarro
Photojournalism
: Content and Technique by Greg
Lewis
The
Journey Is the Destination : The Journals of Dan Eldon by Dan Eldon, Kathy
Eldon
Humanity
and Inhumanity : The Photographic Journey of George Rodger
by George
Rodger(Photographer),
Witness
in Our Time : Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
by Ken Light(Editor),
Kerry Tremain(Introduction)
Carrara
: The Marble Quarries of Tusany by Joel Leivick(Photographer),
Alison Leitch(Afterword)
Album for an Age by Art Shay
The
Land I'm Bound To: Photographs by Jack Leigh, Pat
Conroy
An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
by Dorothea
Lange
American Photojournalism Comes of Age by Michael L. Carlebach
An American Reunion 1993: The 52nd Presidential
Inauguration by Matthew Naythons
Americanos / Latino Life in the United States
by Edward James
Olmos(Editor)
Positive
Lives : Responses to Hiv : A Photodocumentary (The Cassell AIDS
Awareness) by Steve Mayes
The
Sixties by
Richard Avedon, Doon Arbus
W.
Eugene Smith : Photographs 1934-1975 by
W. Eugene Smith
The
Victor Weeps : Afghanistan by Fazal
Sheikh
Weegee's
World by
Weegee
Life Photographers
by John
Loengard
Magnum
Degrees by M. Ignatieff
India by Don McCullin
Sleeping With Ghosts : A Life's Work in
Photography by
Don McCullin
Life
Photographers by John Loengard
America and the Daguerreotype by John
Wood
A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on
Daguerreotypes at Harvard by Melissa
Banta
French Daguerreotypes by Janet E. Buerger, Walter
Clark
Likeness and Landscape : Thomas M. Easterly and the
Art of the Daguerreotype by Dolores A. Kilgo,
The Scenic Daguerreotype :
Romanticism and Early Photography by John Wood, John R.
Stilgoe
Likeness and Landscape : Thomas M. Easterly and the
Art of the Daguerreotype by Dolores A. Kilgo,
Thomas M. Easterly
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Photojournalism - photography
serving the press!
According to the Britannica "The
strongest contribution probably lies in the field of
photojournalism. George
Rodger , one of the founders of the Magnum agency and a
former Life photographer, and Bert Hardy, a former Picture
Post photographer, provided a solid tradition for the work of
Don
McCullin , who like Robert
Capa
before him traveled from
war to war, photographing with deep compassion the conflicts
that appeared in his book The Destruction Business
(1971)."
Even in the begining they say :"ithin weeks
after the French government's announcement of the process
in 1839, magazines were publishing woodcuts or lithographs
with the byline . from a daguerreotype
.. In fact, the two earliest illustrated weeklies. The Illustrated
London News, which started in May 1842, and L'Illustration,
based in Paris from its first issue in March 1843.
owe their origin to the invention of
photography."
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