Robert Capa - Slightly Out of Focus - 1947

GREAT, EARLY, SCARCE TITLE by Robert Capa (1913-1954) from 1947 (!), widely considered as
ONE OF THE BEST, BUT FOR AS THE MOST FAMOUS WAR PHOTOGRAPHER EVER.

WITH THE EXTREM SCARCE ORIGINAL (!) DUSTJACKET.
Unfortunately the book is an ex-library copy with many markings, but the dustjacket is quite well preserved.
So if you have already the book in clean condition and need the very rare original dustjacket in fine condition, this would be a perfect combination for your collection.

ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS by the legendary war photographer, mentioned here:
- Martin Parr, The Photobook, volume 1, page 28/29
- Andrew Roth, Book of 101 books, pages 126/127
- Hasselblad Center, page 176/177
- 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 324

Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and text by Robert Capa about World War II.

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Henry Holt and Co., New York. 1947. First edition, first printing.

Original hardback in linen with original dustjacket. 170 x 235 mm. 244 pages. 118 black and white photos. Photos: Robert Capa. Language: English.

Condition:
Dustjacket highly impressive, quite well-preserved, with smaller flaws like smaller tears and lighter rubbing along the edges and at the spine; small missing parts at the top and at the bottom of the spine. Book fresh with no foxing, but it is an ex-library copy with many ex-library stamps and marks at the beginning, at the title pages and at the end; all text and all photo pages clean with no marks. Overall dustjacket in fine condition, book in poor condition, so overall just good condition.

Highly impressive publication with Robert Capa photos - with original dustjacket.

Robert Capa is one of the most well-known photojournalists of the twentieth century. Born Endre Ernö Friedmann to a Jewish family of tailors, he studied in Berlin, then fled to Paris in 1933. Quickly gaining an international reputation for his photographs of the Spanish Civil War, he later escaped to New York in 1939. He covered World War II as an Allied photographer, cofounded Magnum Photos in 1947 (with Chim, among others), and made several books based on his photographs of travel in Europe, the USSR, and Israel. He died after stepping on a landmine in 1954.
From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war. After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War. But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the "Deutsche Hochschule fuer Politik" in Berlin. Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933. He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1947 Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm posthumously. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit. Allegations that Capa's famous photograph, titled 'Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936' was a fake first emerged in 1975, and the controversy raged on for decades with a superabundance of hot tempers and a dearth of objective analysis or research until a fantastic breakthrough occurred in August 1996, when Rita Grosvenor, a British journalist based in Spain, wrote an article about a Spaniard, named Mario Brotóns Jordá, who had identified the Falling Soldier as Federico Borrell Garc’a and had confirmed in the Spanish government's archives that Borrell had been killed in battle at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936.