Showing posts with label Robert Capa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Capa. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Robert Capa

 Cerro Muriano, Córdoba front, 5 September 1936
  
 Children in Barcelona pretending to be a firing squad 
at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War, ca. 1936
[I am told by commenter Michel Simon that this photo
was actually taken by Catalan photographer Agustin Centelles]
  
 Children playing in the snow, Hankou, China, March 1938
  
 French female collaborationist shaved, 1945
 
 Gerda Taro and soldier, Spain, 1936
[Gerda Taro was another photojournalist, and the personal and professional 
companion of Capa. She was  the first female photojournalist to die on the job.]
  
 Montblanc, Barcelona, Spain, October 25, 1938
  
 On the road from Namdinh to Thaibinh, Indochina. May 25th, 1954. A French military 
convoy on its way north towards Doai Tan. In the foreground, a rice field
  
 Outside the stock exchange, Paris, France, 1937
 
 Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, 1948
  
 Picasso on the beach in Provence, France, with his son Claude 
and his partner Françoise Gilot, 1948
  
 Republican militia members, Barcelona, 1936
  
 Running for shelter during the air raids. Bilbao, Spain, May 1937
  
Young girl at a refugee transit centre, Barcelona, 1939

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was a photojournalist who took some of the most memorable photos of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. These are the World War II photos.

 American troops going from the Chiunzi Pass to Naples. Italy, Late September 1943
  
 Palermo, Sicily, Italy, July 1943
  
 Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne waiting near Sicilian beachheads 
before the invasion of mainland Italy, 1943
  
 D-day-landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944
 
 Omaha Beach. June 6th, 1944. The first wave of American troops lands at dawn
[this photographer had some serious stones to get pictures like this]
  
 D-Day, Allies coming ashore with wounded
  
 The liberation of Cherbourg, Normandy, June 1944
  
 Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. 
Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France, June 16, 1944
  
 Allied troops and press during the liberation of Paris. Paris, August 1944
  
France, October 1944