Heart of Spain

by Capa, Robert; Capa, Cornell; Cabrera, Jose Guirao (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781931788021
• ISBN10: 1931788022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

"Heart of Spain is devoted entirely to the finest of Robert Capa's images of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). These photographs define a moment of great historic and cultural significance, and were seminal to the development of his career as a world-renowned photojournalist.

Author Biography

Robert Capa, considered "the greatest war photographer in the world," was born in 1913 in Hungary. He covered all the major battles of World War II. On assignment for Life magazine in 1954, Capa was killed in Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Heart of Spain: Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War

From the Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiacute;a

Introductory statements

Essays

Capa's pictures were made in his brain-- the camera only completed them

You can no more mistake his work than you can the canvas of a fine painter

Capa knew what to look for and what to do with it when he found it

He knew, for example, that you cannot photograph war because it is largely an emotion

But he did photograph that emotion by shooting beside it

He could show the horror of a whole people in the face of a child

His camera caught and held emotion

Capa's images of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) define a moment of great historic and cultural significance, and are seminal to the development of his career as a photographer

These photographs were Capa's first major body of work, and gained him recognition as one of the greatest photojournalists of our time

Heart of Spain is devoted entirely to the finest collection of these photographs

This volume also features many images never before published, including contact sheets by Capa and his companion Gerda Taro, recently rediscovered in his long-lost notebooks

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