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Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography
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Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography

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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 1954, 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 1913 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 1933, Friedmann went to Paris where he shared a darkroom with Henri Cartier-Bresson and lived with Gerda Taro, also a photographer. Together they contrived the name and image Robert Capa, famous American photographer . By the start of World War II, Capa was in New York freelancing for LIFE, Time, and other publications. He went abroad with the US army to record Allied involvement in WWII, including D-Day on Omaha beach. Disembarking from a landing boat, he took the only images of the invasion. He went on to cover the war in Leipzig, Nuremberg, Berlin, London and Paris. Even now, it is the D-Day images that marked him as the world’s greatest war photographer. It shows his intimate life and his relationships with the day’s larger-than-life personalities: Ingrid Bergman, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Sepia watercolors wash the book in the fog of war and recall Capa’s generation on the cusp of color film. They show his professional work, his personal battles, his victories and struggles, and his legacy: the founding of the Magnum, a cooperative photo agency which gives photographers control of their work. In 1954, having sworn off war photography but in need of money, he left to cover his fifth war, in Indochina. Driven by his conviction that if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough, he was with a French patrol when he stepped on a landmine and was killed, camera in hand. AUTHOR: Florent Silloray is the illustrator of six books published in French, and the author and illustrator of The Book of Roger, a graphic novel adaptation of the memoirs of a soldier who spent World War II in a prison camp.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Country
Canada
Date
1 September 2017
Pages
88
ISBN
9781770859289

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 1954, 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 1913 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 1933, Friedmann went to Paris where he shared a darkroom with Henri Cartier-Bresson and lived with Gerda Taro, also a photographer. Together they contrived the name and image Robert Capa, famous American photographer . By the start of World War II, Capa was in New York freelancing for LIFE, Time, and other publications. He went abroad with the US army to record Allied involvement in WWII, including D-Day on Omaha beach. Disembarking from a landing boat, he took the only images of the invasion. He went on to cover the war in Leipzig, Nuremberg, Berlin, London and Paris. Even now, it is the D-Day images that marked him as the world’s greatest war photographer. It shows his intimate life and his relationships with the day’s larger-than-life personalities: Ingrid Bergman, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and many others. Sepia watercolors wash the book in the fog of war and recall Capa’s generation on the cusp of color film. They show his professional work, his personal battles, his victories and struggles, and his legacy: the founding of the Magnum, a cooperative photo agency which gives photographers control of their work. In 1954, having sworn off war photography but in need of money, he left to cover his fifth war, in Indochina. Driven by his conviction that if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough, he was with a French patrol when he stepped on a landmine and was killed, camera in hand. AUTHOR: Florent Silloray is the illustrator of six books published in French, and the author and illustrator of The Book of Roger, a graphic novel adaptation of the memoirs of a soldier who spent World War II in a prison camp.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Country
Canada
Date
1 September 2017
Pages
88
ISBN
9781770859289