High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photographer Robert Capa. The first Robert Capa Gold Medal was awarded in 1955 to Howard Sochurek.

ISBN: 978-5-5118-7480-7

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954), born Endre Ern? Friedmann, was a 20th century combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. To Capa, technical considerations were secondary to catching a dramatic moment. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...

ISBN: 978-6-1304-0802-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The best work of every LIFE magazine staff photographer, as well as that of a handful of others closely affiliated with the magazine, is on display in this book. Here are portfolios by over 100 great photographers, including Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and, most recently, Joe McNally, whose memorable work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of the magazine. This is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever assembled, and illustrates the strengths that made many of these individuals famous-and LIFE magazine great. In this landmark book, the subjects come alive,...

ISBN: 978-0-500-28836-8
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2010

"The Great LIFE Photographers" is the most comprehensive anthology of LIFE photography ever published, featuring the best work of every staff photographer who worked for the famous magazine, and that of a handful of others who shot for LIFE. It was always the photographers who made LIFE great, and this is the most vivid and exciting portrait of those men and women that has ever been produced. The book offers more than 100 portfolios including those of Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Smith, Robert Capa, Ralph Morse, Nina Leen, Harry Benson, Philippe Halsman, and Joe McNally, whose work for LIFE in the aftermath of September 11 was in the finest tradition of the magazine. Each portfolio includes a...

ISBN: 978-0-316-09793-2
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the worlds great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. At one end of the photojournalistic spectrum are war photographers like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, who capture the most extreme events of human existence as they happen; at the other are social documentarians like Lewis Hine and Sebastião Salgado, who step back from the single dramatic incident to cover in depth such economic and cultural issues as labor and migration. By compiling 250 of the most memorable images from photojournalism’s 150-year history, "Photojournalism 1855 to the Present: Editor’s Choice" provides a fascinating...

ISBN: 978-0-7892-0896-5
Издательство: Abville
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

"Magnum Magnum" celebrates sixty years of the vision, imagination and brilliance of Magnum Photos, the legendary photographic agency and co-operative. A book of unparalleled scale and ambition, it features over 400 photographs by Magnum`s members, from the acknowledged greats of photography in the 20th century - among them, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Marc Riboud and Werner Bischof - to the modern masters and rising stars of our time, such as Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth and Donovan Wylie. Each photographer is represented by six of their works as chosen by, and including a critical text by, another an introduction by the renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm [TBC], biographies of the featured photographers, a...

ISBN: 978-0-500-54342-9
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Russian Journal, published by John Steinbeck in 1948, is an eyewitness account of his travels through the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War era. Accompanied by the distinguished war photographer Robert Capa, Steinbeck set out with the intent to record the real attitudes and modes of existence of people living under Soviet rule. As Steinbeck explained it, the book's goal was "honest reporting, to set down what we saw and heard without editorial comment, without drawing conclusions about things we didn't know sufficiently." This literary and photographic record of life under Stalin's rule is a valuable historical document. Steinbeck and Capa portray Soviet people as living in...

ISBN: 978-3-6399-4569-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Henri Cartier-Bresson (19082004) studied painting before taking up photography in his early twenties. One of the founders of the photography agency Magnum (together with Robert Capa and others), he is best known for the consummate skill with which he captured the most fleeting of scenes. This volume, introduced by Michael Brenson, includes selections from his photographs of France, Spain, America, India, Russia, Mexico and pre-revolutionary China.

ISBN: 978-0-500-41060-8
Дата выхода: январь 2011