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Photo Poche #36
Robert Capa
Book by Capa, Cornell
127 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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March 24, 2022
Photos magnifiques et photographe de guerre remarquable.
April 3, 2018
Coleção de fotos de Robert Capa;
São 68 fotos em preto e branco, em sua maioria das guerras em que Capa estava presente com sua leica, e pelas quais ficou tão famoso!
Fotos simples, carregadas de verdade e emoção.
São 68 fotos em preto e branco, em sua maioria das guerras em que Capa estava presente com sua leica, e pelas quais ficou tão famoso!
Fotos simples, carregadas de verdade e emoção.
July 14, 2021
Simply put- a classic retrospective of the work of Robert Capa by his brother Cornell.
Some great quotes from the book on the photographs of Robert Capa;
Robert Capa: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
Cornell Capa: “What he left behind is the story of the unique voyage and a visual testimony affirming his own faith in humankinds capacity to endure and occasionally to overcome.” (intro)
“The common denominator of the photographs in this book is not wear but people- and Capra’s extraordinary sensitivity to and sympathy for the human condition.”
Capa... the War pictures: “It is hardly surprising that their impact is so great despite despite their small number, for they are amongst the most intense and immediate shots of battle action ever taken.”
Capa: “His temperament suited him well for ear photography; he was brave, he loved the adventure and camaraderie he found at the front, and he was in inveterate gambler- with his life as well as with his money.”
Capa’s style:
“”He never fully mastered the use of flashbulbs; he was often very careless in the darkroom; and some of his editors used to wonder whether he had intentionally built into his camera a device for scratching his film. Perhaps Capa felt that it would be blasphemous to be too concerned with the technical niceties of a picture in which people were sown in danger of their lives and that there would something obscene in worrying about fine a print of a picture of human suffering.”
John Steinbeck:
“”He could show the horror of a whole people in the face of a child. His camera caught and held emotion.”
Some great quotes from the book on the photographs of Robert Capa;
Robert Capa: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
Cornell Capa: “What he left behind is the story of the unique voyage and a visual testimony affirming his own faith in humankinds capacity to endure and occasionally to overcome.” (intro)
“The common denominator of the photographs in this book is not wear but people- and Capra’s extraordinary sensitivity to and sympathy for the human condition.”
Capa... the War pictures: “It is hardly surprising that their impact is so great despite despite their small number, for they are amongst the most intense and immediate shots of battle action ever taken.”
Capa: “His temperament suited him well for ear photography; he was brave, he loved the adventure and camaraderie he found at the front, and he was in inveterate gambler- with his life as well as with his money.”
Capa’s style:
“”He never fully mastered the use of flashbulbs; he was often very careless in the darkroom; and some of his editors used to wonder whether he had intentionally built into his camera a device for scratching his film. Perhaps Capa felt that it would be blasphemous to be too concerned with the technical niceties of a picture in which people were sown in danger of their lives and that there would something obscene in worrying about fine a print of a picture of human suffering.”
John Steinbeck:
“”He could show the horror of a whole people in the face of a child. His camera caught and held emotion.”
February 10, 2011
Ho deciso di acquistare questo libro per approfondire la figura di Capa e anche per avere una maggiore conoscenza della sua opera.
L'opera è molto ben scritta e documentata ottimamente, tra l'altro attinge a testimonianze e amici che riescono a gettare luce anche sugli aspetti più controversi del suo carattere. Ne emerge il profilo di un animo inquieto, segnato dalle tante sofferenze vissute nell'infanzia e nella prima giovinezza, che riesce a ritrovare un po' di pace solo nel cuore dell'azione. Il libro mette in luce sia gli innegabili difetti, come la dipendenza dal bere e dal gioco d'azzardo, ma anche il coraggio, il grandissimo talento e l'aiuto che ha dato a moltissimi colleghi.
Il corredo fotografico del volume non è grande. Se si vuole avere una panoramica migliore di tutto il suo lavoro ci sono fonti migliori, ad esempio la nuova edizione di "Slightly out of focus", la sua autobiografia ironica.
In ogni caso un'opera assolutamente consigliata agli appassionati di fotografia.
L'opera è molto ben scritta e documentata ottimamente, tra l'altro attinge a testimonianze e amici che riescono a gettare luce anche sugli aspetti più controversi del suo carattere. Ne emerge il profilo di un animo inquieto, segnato dalle tante sofferenze vissute nell'infanzia e nella prima giovinezza, che riesce a ritrovare un po' di pace solo nel cuore dell'azione. Il libro mette in luce sia gli innegabili difetti, come la dipendenza dal bere e dal gioco d'azzardo, ma anche il coraggio, il grandissimo talento e l'aiuto che ha dato a moltissimi colleghi.
Il corredo fotografico del volume non è grande. Se si vuole avere una panoramica migliore di tutto il suo lavoro ci sono fonti migliori, ad esempio la nuova edizione di "Slightly out of focus", la sua autobiografia ironica.
In ogni caso un'opera assolutamente consigliata agli appassionati di fotografia.
December 9, 2019
From the original bad boy Magnum photographer...devastating photojournalism during the Spanish Civil War...continues to permeate our culture everywhere, appearing in unexpected places like Alt-j lyrics.
December 14, 2012
Pictures - they say the cover was setup?
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