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100 1 $aKershaw, Alex.
245 10 $aBlood and champagne :$bthe life and times of Robert Capa /$cAlex Kershaw.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,$c2003.
300 $axix, 298 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index.
520 $aRobert Capa, one of the finest photojournalist of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the beginnings of Vietnam. He risked his life again and again, most dramatically as the only photographer landing with the first wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day, and he created some of the most enduring images ever made with a camera. But the drama in Capa's life wasn't limited to one side of the lens. Born in Budapest as Andre Freidman, Capa fled political repression and
520 $aanti-Semitism as a teenager by escaping to Berlin, where he first picked up a Leica and then witnessed the rise of Hitler. By the time his images of D-Day appeared in Life Magazine, he had become a legend, the first photographer to make his calling appear glamorous and sexy. In 1947, after a decade covering war, he founded a cooperative agency-Magnum-and in the process revolutionized the industry. For the first time, photographers would retain their own copyrights and negatives, and nearly half a
520 $acentury later, Magnum remains the most prestigious agency of its kind. By the time he died, at forty-one in 1954, he had become a colleague and confidant to writers Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway and director John Huston, and a seducer of several of his era's most alluring icons, including Ingrid Bergman. From Budapest in the twenties to Paris in the thirties, from post-war Hollywood to Stalin's Russia, and from New York in the fifties to Indochina, Blood and champagne is an extensive
520 $aaccount of Capa's life and times. Based on extensive interviews with Capa's friends and contemporaries, as well as FBI and Soviet files and other previously unpublished materials, Alex Kershaw's biography is as compelling as its charismatic subject.
600 10 $aCapa, Robert,$d1913-1954.
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