Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you'll really enjoy it, Nathan....I must say that one of the thing that struck me was that while there are some truly iconic images, there is am amazing amount of essentially quite mediocre stuff...I think that what we either do or ultimately will remember Capa for is having essentially been the first "modern" combat photographer, the first to go to the front with a 35 mm camera - Leica, of course - that allowed him to really bring the horror and experience of combat to those who would otherwise never know what it was - just as Brady, with his enormous clunky equipment, brought the aftermath of the carnage, and the portraits of the combatants, to the home audience 75 years earlier. The other thing Capa did, of course, was to set the standard for courage/insanity(?) in terms of his willingness to risk, and ultimately give his life to get his photos..... B. D. At 10:20 PM 4/14/99 +0200, you wrote: >Thanks B.D. I surfed over to Amazon and ordered it this morning. > >Nathan > >B. D. Colen wrote: > >> "Heart Of Spain" - Robert Capa's Photographs Of The Spanish Civil War - >> >From The Collection Of The Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia >> >> Aperture, Hardcover ISBN 0-89381-831-8 >> >> Spanish Language Catalogue ISBN 84-80-26-177-X > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Overijse, Belgium > >General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/index.html >Belgium photo page: http://member.xoom.com/wajsman/index.htm >Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html >