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Minneapolis Star Tribune - Mar 17, 2010
Inspired by the photographs of war correspondent Robert Capa, Spielberg sensed that he was re-creating the template. "I wanted to show that kind of terror ...

photographer of the 'golden era'
San Francisco Chronicle - Mar 16, 2010
In 1953, he joined Magnum at the invitation of its founders, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. He became an apprentice to Cartier-Bresson but it was ...

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Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)

by: Robert Capa
Frank Capa (born Endre Friedmann in 1913) was known as the 'Greatest War-Photographer in the World" when he died in 1954. As a teen, he planned a career as a reporter. Journalsim, he thought, would enable him to combine his loves of politics and literature. In the spring of 1936, he adopted the name Robert Capa, the name of an alter ego, the imaginary character of a glamorous American photographer.

He photographed five wars from '36 to '54. The first was the Spanish Civil War. He'd been sent to Madrid to photograph Juan de la Cierva who, in 1923, had invented a forerunner of the helicopter.
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Blood And Champagne: The Life And Times Of Robert Capa

by: Alex Kershaw
I loved this book. It actually made me cry. I had no idea that Robert Capa had an affair with Ingrid Bergman (among others!) and it is brilliantly told. I have read a few of Alex Kershaw's books and the thing I really love about them is that they tell true stories in an exciting way. They really do read like novels -- rather than the usual stuffy, worthy bios that get written that only an obsessive fan of the subject could be bothered to wade through. Deserves to be made into a movie.
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Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection

by: Richard Whelan
This is an excellent collection of Capa's work, it is organized well and one can trace his professional growth. I recommend this book with one concern: The publisher chose to use a font similar to a typewriter, to give the photos a feel for the WWII-era context... but the font is too light to read in many cases. Simply using a bolder typewriter font would have been fine, and earned this book a 5 star rating.
I know this may seem picky, but what good are the details of his life if they cannot be read?
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