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Photojournalism
Robert Capa
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Text by richard whelan.
even in his lifetime, robert Capa was described as the greatest war photographer in the world. It was an ironic achievement for a
man who loathed war, but to this day, no one better embodies the photographer as cultural soldier and no one’s work better encapsulates
the violence and brutality of the twentieth century than Capa. this volume presents a rich selection of his work as a war
photographer, starting from the images that established his fame: his documentation of the horrors of the Spanish Civil War from
1936–1939 and the Chinese resistance to the Japanese invasion in 1938. It continues on to World War II—including Capa’s stunning
photographs of the D-Day landing in normandy, where on June 6, 1944, he swam to shore alongside the second assault wave of
american troops—and on to the first arab–Israel conflict in 1948, before concluding with the First Indochina War, in which Capa
joined a French regiment and eventually lost his life. today, the wars of the twentieth century may have transformed from wounds
into scars, but Capa’s images remain as devastating as ever, describing the trauma of war through a civilian’s eyes, and reminding
us that despite years of loss and destruction, humanity manages to persist.
Born endre Friedmann in Hungary, where he was nicknamed “cápa” (shark) at school, Robert Capa (1913–1954) adopted the name
by which he is remembered in the early 1930s, following his relocation from Berlin to paris. His first published photograph was a
portrait of Leon trotsky giving a speech on “the meaning of the russian revolution” in Copenhagen, in 1932; his most famous
work was his record of D-Day, at omaha Beach. Capa was killed by a land mine, during an assignment on the First Indochina War.
978-88-366-2288-7
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Charles Harbutt:
Departures and Arrivals
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Departures and Arrivals compiles world-renowned
photographer Charles Harbutt’s favorite photographs,
selected from throughout his half-decade of making
pictures. Harbutt (born 1935) has been a prominent
member of the american postwar photojournalist tradition
ever since his documentation of the Cuban revolution
in 1959; he subsequently joined magnum
photos and has twice been elected its president. Harbutt’s
pictures have been exhibited and collected by
the museum of modern art and the Whitney museum
in new York, the art Institute in Chicago and
the Corcoran gallery of art in Washington. In 1997,
his negatives, master prints and archives were acquired
for the collection of the Center for Creative
photography in tucson. Departures and Arrivals is
his third monograph. the black-and-white photographs
gathered here highlight ordinary moments in
extraordinary historical circumstances, as well as less
fraught images of city living. as Harbutt writes in his
introduction to the volume: “there are pictures of
men and boys, women and girls, statues, pensive
monkeys, moments that took my breath away, scared
me, made me smile.” He adds: “History belongs to all
of us, not just kings and generals.” Departures and Arrivals
records Harbutt’s half-century career at the
forefront of american photography.
978-88-6208-243-3
Clth, 10.5 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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Markov-Grinberg:
Soviet Era
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Text by zhanna vasilyeva.
mark markov-grinberg (1907–2006) is one of the Soviet
era’s greatest photographers, ranking alongside
alexander rodchenko and gustav Klutsis in his energetic
portrayals of an optimistic, rapidly changing
country as it segwayed into the Stalin years. markovgrinberg
learned photo-reportage in the mid-1920s,
while working at the newspaper Sovyetski Yug (Soviet
South). In the early 1930s he moved to moscow to become
a correspondent for the Soyuzfoto agency.
today he is perhaps best known for his photographs
of red stars replacing double-headed eagles on the
Kremlin towers, or his portraits of nikita Izotov (from
the Coal and Roses series), Yuri gagarin, maxim
gorky, David oistrakh, Ilya ehrenburg and Sergei
eisenstein—photographs that helped to define the
culture of the U.S.S.r. in the 1930s, and all of which
are included here. often juxtaposing the march of industrialization
with rural scenes, this volume reproduces
those iconic images of those heady times
alongside numerous previously unseen pictures,
recording a pivotal and dramatic half-century of russian
history.
978-88-6208-227-3
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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Marc Riboud: To Asia
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In the spring of 1955, the celebrated French photographer
marc riboud (born 1923) bought an old Land
rover from george rodger (the British photojournalist)
and set out for Calcutta. reared on his father’s stories
of traveling, riboud was keen to strike out into
unfamiliar terrain and see as much of the middle east
and asia as possible. He first stopped in Istanbul,
traveled through the rural landscapes of Cappadocia
and anatolia, and then headed across persia, into
afghanistan, where he made extended forays into its
tribal regions. In 1956, he arrived in India, the length
and breadth of which he travelled for nearly a year,
from Calcutta and Darjeeling in the east to Delhi and
rajasthan in the west, then south to Bombay, and
north to varanasi and into nepal. It was from nepal
that he entered Communist China, as one of a handful
of Westerners to obtain a visa at this time. riboud
ended his “grand tour” in Japan in 1958, eventually
returning to France with thousands of photographs.
this five-volume box set gathers together a sprawling
visual journal from riboud’s three-year odyssey, with
images ranging from architectural photographs to
portraits of hospitable locals.
978-2-9151-7384-0
Slip, Clth, 5 vols, 7.5 x 8 in. / 320 pgs / 300 duotone.
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