Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/15/03 12:54:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, evegir@reachone.com writes: > Have to jump in here with regard to Capa's work. (and with all due respect > to Doug) Though we remember Capa as a war photographer, his work was not > that shallow or limited. A trip to the Magnum site and a click on a couple > of the books there about Capa will yield about a thousand Capa images. (The > site seems to still be a power-out casualty) There's a lot more than a > common street-shooter at work! - ------------- There's an excellent review of a book on Capa in this month's New Republic, available in any library. Oddly enough, because of Magnum's propietary policy, there are no photos by Capa in the book. There was a wild side to Capa, but underlying it was the sensibility of an artist. He had a remarkable rapport with people. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html