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This is an exclusive photobook auction by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany).
During the incredible period of troubles all around the world, we have selected 60 photobooks to remember that war is (not) over. 
This auction gathers works from the archive (Robert Capa, Stanley Greene and others) to our times (Gilles Peress, Kent Klich, Fouad Elkoury and many others) and it's a way for us to share about 'photographers at war' into photobook's history. 

Early, widely unknown and underrated publication with 25 photos by Robert Capa, the most famous war photographer ever and the founder of 'Magnum', the legendary photography agency.

Fantastic catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum from 30th of march till 30th of april 1962.

GREAT TYPOGRAPHY (probably by Willem Sandberg). GREAT LAYOUT.

The catalogues shows Capa's legendary (war) photos in different chapters:
Europe (1934-1938), Spain (1936-1939), China (1938), England (1942), North Africa (1942/1943), Italy (1943), Naples (1943), Normandy (invasion 1944), France (1944), Germany (1945), Israel (1948), Indo-China (1954), also Capa's last picture, a short biography of Robert Capa and a copy of a letter by Ernest Hemingway to Robert Capa in english.

Robert Capa (1913-1954) 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.

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 1962. First edition, first printing. 

Softcover with dustjacket (as issued). 187 x 260 mm. 28 pages. 25 black and white photos, including 1 self-portrait. Photos: Robert Capa. Text in Dutch, letter by Ernest Hemingway in English. 

Condition:
Inside excellent, very fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside with fresh covers, along the spine lightly yellowed (front), lightly browned (rear side) and lightly rubbed; no creases, no tears, no bumping, no remarkable defects. Overall fine condition.

Highly impressive publication from 1962 (!) by Robert Capa - in better than usual condition.

Capa is the most famous war photographer and well-known for excellent photobooks, like 'Slightly Out Of Focus' (Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 126/127. Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 28/29. Hasselblad Center, page 176/177. 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 324).

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 fŸr 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.

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Robert Capa - Robert Capa. Mensen in de Oorlog - 1962

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