Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection (PHOTOGRAPHY)

Whelan, Richard

ISBN 10: 071484067X / ISBN 13: 9780714840673

Published by Phaidon Press, 2001

About this Item

Light wear to the edges of the boards/covers. Pages show slight toning along the edges consistent with age, otherwise text and photographs clean and unaffected. Binding tight and square. No writing, underlining, or highlighting on pages.

Robert Capa (1913?1954) was one of the twentieth century's greatest photojournalists and a founding member of the Magnum photo agency. Over the course of a 22-year career (1932?1954), his photography documents some of the most turbulent events of the era ? from the Spanish Civil War to the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach to the First Indochina War, where he was killed after stepping on a landmine.

This volume, edited by Capa's brother Cornell Capa (himself a noted Life photographer) and biographer Richard Whelan, gathers 937 photographs into what is widely regarded as the most complete single-volume survey of Capa's work ever assembled. The images are sequenced chronologically as photo-essays with brief accompanying commentary, tracing Capa's remarkable range ? combat photography alongside quieter, more intimate work, including his portraits of friends like Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection (PHOTOGRAPHY)
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071484067X
• ISBN 13: 9780714840673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 25.4W x 25.4H x 5.08D centimeters 25.4 centimeters width by 25.4 centimeters height by 5.08 centimeters depth
• Weight: 3148 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • history: U.S. photography
  • photography

About this title

Synopsis

This is the first book to reproduce the definitive set of 937 rarely seen and classic images of Robert Capa, one of the most influential documentary photographers of the twentieth century.

Robert Capa (1913-54), one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and a founding member of 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 22-year period (1932-54) encompassing some of the most catastrophic and dramatic events of the last century. This book represents the most definitive selection of Capa's work ever published, 937 photographs meticulously selected by his brother, Cornell Capa (himself a noted Life photographer), and his biographer, Richard Whelan.

The photographs, arranged in chronological order as stories and accompanied by brief commentaries, reveal the dramatic shifts in location and subject matter that Capa experienced from day to day--- from war-torn Israel to Pablo Picasso on a sunny beach in France and from Ernest Hemingway carousing in London to Capa's historic images of the Allied landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944.

About the Author

Robert Capa, born in Hungary, was known for his extreme bravery, amazing eye, and irrestitible charm. He was a co-founder of the Magnum cooperative picture agency and died in 1954 after stepping on a landmine while on an assignment in Indochina. His life and work were inextricably linked, and both have had a marked influence on generations of photographers. Richard Whelan is an outstanding authority on Capa's life and work. He is a New York-based independent cultural historian and the author of several books, including acclaimed biographies of Robert Capa and Alfred Stieglitz.