Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have just read an interesting biography of Robert Capa (I forget the author's name at the moment). I have not read any of his own books yet (I plan to). The impression I get, when Capa was photographing non--wartime subjects, was that he was a charming conversationalist and spent a lot of time talking with his potential subjects before photographing them. I also got the impression that, in his wartime photographs, Capa did not always aim for the thick of the action, but found many of his best pictures behind the action, in lines of refugees, in soldiers resting from combat, etc. Michael Volow (mvolo@acpub.duke.edu) Durham, NC