[Leica] Images: Summer Vacation Part 3

[phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong)]

That was Andrei (Robert Capa).
What about Cornell ?  Why and when did he change
his name ?  I may one day change my name from the name
I got from my father;  but I doubt I would use the same 
name my brother picks, should he choose to change
_his_ name.   Possible, but very highly unlikely.  But of
course, I am not Cornell, and he may have his own
reasons.  Anybody knows ?

- Phong


Jon wrote:
> "Ok.  So back to Cornell.  Why his name Capa, and not Friedman ?"
> 
> 
> According to PBS biography:
>  "As a down-and-out expatriate in Paris, Friedman changed his name to one
> that resembled a Hollywood director he admired, Frank Capra, and suddenly
> his photographs began to sell."