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Robert Capa

The Definitive Collection

By Richard Whelan

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| Paperback | 9780714844497

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Robert Capa (1913-1954), one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and a founding member of the Magnum photographic agency, had the mind of a passionate and committed journalist and the eye of an artist. His lifework, consisting of more than 70,000 negative frames, constitutes an unContinue

Robert Capa (1913-1954), one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and a founding member of the Magnum photographic agency, had the mind of a passionate and committed journalist and the eye of an artist. His lifework, consisting of more than 70,000 negative frames, constitutes an unparalleled documentation of a crucial twenty-two-year period (1932-1954) encompassing some of the most catastrophic and dramatic events of the last century. This book represents the most definitive selection of Robert Capa's work ever published, a collection of 937 photographs selected by Capa's brother, Cornell Capa (himself a noted LIFE photographer), and his biographer, Richard Whelan, who meticulously re-examined all of Robert Capa's contact sheets to compile this master set of images.

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  • Homage to André Friedmann

    In November 1938 Picture Post devoted 11 pages to pictures of a Loyalist attack on Insurgent troops outside Barcelona. They described one, showing men sheltering from falling shells, as ‘the most amazing war picture ever taken’. The caption to the fu ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 572 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0714844497
  • ISBN-13: 9780714844497
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1613 mm x 1613 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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