Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism

Cover Art for 9780805098358, Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
ISBN: 9780805098358
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 21 February, 2017
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Links Pan Macmillan
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." Robert Capa Robert Capa and Gerda Taro were young Jewish refugees, idealistic and in love. As photographers in the 1930s, they set off to capture their generation's most important strugglethe fight against fascism. Among the first to depict modern warfare, Capa, Taro, and their friend Chim took powerful photographs of the Spanish Civil War that went straight from the action to news magazines. They brought a human face to war with their iconic shots of a loving couple resting, a wary orphan, and, always, more and more refugeespeople driven from their homes by bombs, guns, and planes. Today, our screens are flooded with images from around the world. But Capa and Taro were pioneers, bringing home the crises and dramas of their timeand helping give birth to the idea of bearing witness through technology. With a cast of characters ranging from Langston Hughes and George Orwell to Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and packed with dramatic photos, posters, and cinematic magazine layouts, here is Capa and Taro's riveting, tragic, and ultimately inspiring story.

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