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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.49092
EAN: 9780714844497
ISBN: 0714844497
Label: Phaidon Press
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 572
Publication Date: November 01, 2004
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Studio: Phaidon Press
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Product Description:
Robert Capa (19131954), one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century and a founding member of the Magnum photographic agency, had the mind of a passionate and committed journalist and the eye of an artist. His lifework, consisting of more than 70,000 negative frames, constitutes an unparalleled documentation of a crucial twenty-two-year period (19321954) encompassing some of the most catastrophic and dramatic events of the last century. This book represents the most definitive selection of Robert Capas work ever published, a collection of 937 photographs selected by Capas brother, Cornell Capa (himself a noted LIFE photographer), and his biographer, Richard Whelan, who meticulously re-examined all of Robert Capas contact sheets to compile this master set of images.
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Excelent book, although title is an overstatement:'Definitive Collection' does not cover the colour photo's of Robert Capa (see 'Capa in Color' by Magnum Photo's).
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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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This book is exactly what I hoped it to be. Despite the fact that you can find better Robert Capa's books in this one photos have been carefully and right chosen, so I would recommend it to other people
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A very nice book with best pictures of the awarded photographer Kapa, which is one of the milestones in the photojournalism.
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An excellent book, well printed, with a lot of photographs. The whole book gives a very good vieuw of the work of Capa. A must for everybody!
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