Cartier-Bresson centenary celebrated in France Sep 21, 2008
The stubborn photographer spurned help from his family to further his career and later founded the Magnum Photos agency in 1947 with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, to protect the commercial rights of photographers. The period between 1943 and the early 1970s was the most profitable for photojournalists like Cartier-Bresson. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The lure of the street May 31, 2008
In the 1930s, Robert Capa advised Henri Cartier-Bresson to call himself not an artist, but a photojournalist ... In the early 1930s, Robert Capa had advised Cartier-Bresson to call himself not a surrealist or an artist, but "a photojournalist and then do whatever you like". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bust from riverbed reveals face of Julius Caesar: archeologist May 27, 2008
Globetrotting photojournalist Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York and was the brother of war photographer Robert Capa, has died at age 90. More Arts Headlines. (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Scotiabank awards $5,000 Prize to Magnum Photos ... May 11, 2008
Magnum Photos was founded by the forefathers of documentary photography: Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David "Chim" Seymour, and George Rodger. Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. (Fox News)
Traveling photo gallery to display student flag shots Apr 10, 2008
News Publishing online. 04/09/08 Rachel Brown. (Catoosa County News, GA)
Unusual burial for 4 photojournalists Apr 2, 2008
Like Burrows, he had won the prestigious Robert Capa award, for "superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise." He also was the most popular member of AP's Saigon staff. Potter, who had distressed his Philadelphia Quaker family by opting to become a war photographer, was the youngest-ever member of the Saigon press corps when he arrived in 1968 brash, ambitious and already recognized as a promising talent. (MSNBC -- International)
Art Review: The Information Age Jan 18, 2008
Robert Capa, among the founder of the Magnum agency, did one of the most famous wartime pictures of the 20th century, Death of Loyalist Militiaman Federico Borrelli Garcia, Cerro Muriano (1936). It's here, and so is his celebrated 1951 portrait of Pablo Picasso holding a beach umbrella for his longtime partner Francoise Gilot (later to become a longtime La Jollan). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Coloring Paris: A photographic homage to the city Jan 15, 2008
It was young foreigners who brought a fresh eye - the irrepressible Robert Capa forsook black and white for color shots of girls swinging through the streets in Dior's "New Look"; Ernst Haas, who had come from war-blasted Vienna, found poetry in the city's gentle skies; and Saul Leiter caught caf. life unlike anything he had seen in New York. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Modern Photography Exhibitions Dec 2, 2007
Vintage prints, caption and contact sheets, handwritten notes, personal letters and original magazine layouts trace the career of photojournalist Robert Capa (1913-1954) during the 1930s and 1940s as well as his coverage of the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War and World War II.. International Center of Photography, New York, NY USA: September 26, 2007-January 6, 2008. (Suite101.com)
In Brooklyn, Carib art show aims to be good neighbor and good art Sep 27, 2007
--"This Is War! Robert Capa at Work," "Gerda Taro," "Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture During the Spanish Civil War," and "Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep: A Project by Francesc Torres," International Center of Photography, Sept. 25 through Jan. 6: These four shows all deal with issues of conflict and war. --"Impressed by Light: British Photographs From Paper Negatives, 1840-1860," Metropolitan Museum, through Dec. 30: This is a show of calotypes, works made from paper negatives. (North County Times)
Captured In Battle Sep 27, 2007
The four-part exhibition features work from Robert Capa, one of the best-known war photographers of the 20th century, whose prints were widely published in Life and other magazines; his wife, Gerda Taro, who died at 26, crushed by a tank while shooting the Spanish Civil War; a Spanish graphics propaganda display, "Other Weapons and Francesc Torres' photos of the 2004 excavation of a mass grave of victims of Franco fascists in Spain. Capa's photographs are from Spain, late 1930s China and the... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Short Cuts - In Theaters: Sunshine (2007) Jul 29, 2007
Cillian Murphy as Robert Capa, the crew physicist and only man capable of controlling the nuclear payload being used to revitalize the star, is absolutely outstanding. At first, we fear he will be nothing more than a science-minded doormat, the kind of character who has the tight ethos, but lacks the fortitude to push his plan. (PopMatters)
Picture This: Jun 19, 2007
Robert Capa and his colleagues were unhappy with the unimaginative way publications like Life used them and their photographs ... Magnum photographers more often find themselves at the scene of epoch-making events, and a couple, including Robert Capa (the first American journalist killed in Vietnam, in 1954) have died documenting them. (Slate)
Ringling Museum Getting Multi-Million Makeover May 14, 2007
This summer the museum will host Impressionist landscapes and photography from Robert Capa and other photographers from the Magnum Photos collection. jm. (WFOR.com, FL)
Ringling revival a 'riches to rags to riches story' May 13, 2007
This summer the museum will host Impressionist landscapes and photography from Robert Capa and other photographers from the Magnum Photos collection. Wetenhall said the exhibits pack in visitors, especially on rainy days. (Herald-Tribune)
New DVDs: Last King of Scotland Apr 17, 2007
The disc also has a photo essay in which Cooper chronicles how he was influenced by the images shot by legendary photographer Robert Capa. A 32-page booklet has essays on the film and diary excerpts from a novelization of the movie that came out at the time of release. (MSNBC -- Movies)
"Turkey by Magnum" Apr 3, 2007
In the 1940s, the masters who founded Magnum, including Robert Capa, wanted to capture what they termed a "decisive moment" on film. With Turkey interested in showing that it was a rapidly Westernizing country, Capa took pictures of modern ports and construction sights during that era. (International Herald Tribune)
'Under the Roof' debuts at Madidi Feb 26, 2007
His work has won two World Press Pictures of the Year in 1987 and 1991, the Overseas Press Club Award several times, and the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal. Turnley has worked in nearly 75 countries around the world, and has published six books of his work. (Clarksdale Press Register, MS)
Going beyond the headlines Jan 12, 2007
He is a recipient of the Magazine Photographer of the Year award; a World Press Photo of the Year winner; and a Robert Capa Award winner from the Overseas Press Club. In 2006, he won first place in the presidential category of the White House News Photographers' Association. (Mail Tribune, OR)
