Robert Capa - Slightly Out of Focus - 1947

GREAT, EARLY, SCARCE TITLE av Robert Capa (1913-1954) från 1947 (!), allmänt ansedd som EN AV DE BÄSTA, MEN FÖR SOM DEN MEST FAMÖSA 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 och började sälja hans tryck under det namnet. Han träffade Pablo Picasso och Ernest Hemingway, och bildade vänskap med kollegor fotograferna David 'Chim' Seymour och Henri Cartier-Bresson. År 1947 grundade Capa Magnum Photos tillsammans med Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger och William Vandivert. Den 25 maj 1954 fotograferade han för Life i Thai-Binh, Indokina, när han trampade på en landmin och dog. Franska armén tilldelade honom Croix de Guerre med palme postumt. Robert Capa Gold Medal Award instiftades 1955 för att belöna exceptionellt professionellt förtjänst. Onsd. påståenden att Capas berömda fotografi, med titeln 'Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936' var en fejk uppstod först 1975, och kontroversen rasade i decennier med överskottshet och brist på objektiv analys eller forskning tills ett fantastiskt genombrott inträffade i augusti 1996, när Rita Grosvenor, en brittisk journalist bosatt i Spanien, skrev en artikel om en spanjor vid namn Mario Brotóns Jordá, som hade identifierat Falling Soldier som Federico Borrell Garc’a och bekräftat i den spanska regeringens arkiv att Borrell hade dött i strid vid Cerro Muriano den 5 september 1936.