Robert Capa

Robert Capa A Graphic Biography

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Publisher's Synopsis

This title offers a portrayal of the career of the great war photographer Robert Capa who, at the time of his death in 1954, had only one wish: to be an unemployed war photographer. 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.' This book follows Robert Capa's personal and professional life and through his eyes, the social upheaval and earth-shattering wars of the 20th century. It shows his intimate life and his realtionships with the day's larger-than-life personalities: Ingrid Bergman, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and many others.

Book information

ISBN: 9781770859289
Publisher: Firefly Books
Imprint: Firefly Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 070.49092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 86
Weight: 686g
Height: 301mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 13mm