Name: Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography, Hardcover/Florent Silloray
Brand: Firefly Books
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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.`` Capa made several trips to document the Spanish Civil War, where he took the seminal image, ``Death of a Loyalist Soldier`` for which he was heralded as ``the greatest war photographer in the world.`` 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. Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography , written in the first pe