SIGNED; Robert Capa - Robert Capa (UNIQUE ASSOCIATION COPY) - 1980

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LONGER AND VERY PERSONAL VINTAGE DEDICATION by Cornell Capa to famous French photographer Lucien Clergue and his wife Yolande in May 1980, the year of the publication (see pictures).

Signed by the artist.
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Cornell Capa is the younger brother of the legendary Magnum photographer Robert Capa, photojournalist and co-founder of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.

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FANTASTIC EXHIBITION CATALOGUE by the legendary war photographer Robert Capa in Japan with the support of the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP).
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Pacific Press Service (PPS Tsushinsha). 1980. First edition, first printing.

Paperback. 220 x 257 mm. 96 pages. Photos: Robert Capa. Edited by Cornell Capa under the suspices of the International Center of Photography, New York. Acknowledgments: Cornell Capa (Executive director International Center of Photography), Robert L. Kirschenbaum (President Pacific Press Service). Text in Japanese.

Condition:
Book inside excellent, fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Book outside quite fresh; with light trace of use, but with no remarkable defects. Overall very fine condition.

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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.

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.