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Pages: 96 pages, English and German
Size: 14.3 x 10.9 x 0.6 inches
Publisher: Stern
ISBN: 978-3652000079
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Capa, Robert

Robert Capa Stern Portfolio

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Born in Budapest in 1913, the self-schooled Robert Capa is considered the father of photo-journalism. A fervent anti-war campaigner, it was his powerful record of the Spanish Civil War that brought him global fame. On moving to the USA in 1939, he became a war correspondent for Life magazine and the US military and cofounded the Magnum photo agency. His fearless chronicle of the Allied landings gained critical and public acclaim. Capa's untimely death in 1954 came after a serious landmine injury in Vietnam.

About the photographer

Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. At the same time he was working part-time in the lab of the "Ullstein" magazines group, to which he sold his first published picture, of Leon Trotsky's 1931 Copenhagen meeting. Driven out of the country by the imminent Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933. He participated in the founding of the agency Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the "famous" American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell Friedmann’s prints under that name. In 1947, Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert.

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