The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The legendary photography collective Magnum returns to its Parisian roots with a new gallery and an exhibition celebrating its photographers of tomorrow. VIEW OUR PHOTOS. Magnum Photos, the celebrated photojournalism cooperative founded in 1947 by...
Libertyblog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
George Will: According to Robert Hughes, author of “The Shock of the New” (1980), during World War I’s nation-shattering and culture-shredding carnage, no photograph of a dead soldier appeared in a German, French or British newspaper. But the Sept. 23,...
Mid Atlantic Art News (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Staged History It's the iconic photo that captures the essence of the Spanish Civil War: a soldier falling to his death, arms splayed out behind him, gun still in hand, after being shot on a grassy hill. But new evidence now claims to prove once and for all that the camera does lie - and Robert Capa's famous Falling Soldier was faked. Read the fascinating detective story in the Daily Mail here and...
A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The photographer Robert Capa has long been accused of staging his iconic Spanish Civil War image, "Falling Soldier" (1936). During his life, Capa (1913-1954) vigorously denied the charge but recently a Spanish professor has concluded, perhaps definitively, that the photo...
Hub Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
George Will tackles whether Robert Capa’s iconic “Falling Soldier’’ photo was faked. … Sounds like a controversy for Cambridge’s Errol Morris to settle . I wanted to believe that Roger Fenton didn’t stage his famous Crimean War photo. I want to believe that Capa didn’t stage his own photo. But facts are facts, so let them fall where they may. …...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
NEW YORK -- The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatants, was perhaps the century's emblematic conflict. As a rehearsal for the Second World War, Spain's agony became...
Art Boobs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ferenc Berko: Bombay, 1941 Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches Ferenc Berkó (1916-2000) is part of long tradition of Hungarian émigré photographers, which includes Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkásci. Influenced by some of the great Bauhaus teachers at a young age, Berko explored...
The Sleepy Traveler (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I've been thinking of what cool thing to post from movie reviews of Astroboy, which brought me back to childhood memories of the old 1980s cartoon (just wish they used the original 1960s score which made the movie incomplete), to accounts of my recent projects which I have failed to tell you about. There have been 3 if I can recall. Since I'm in the area of educating people of nice things like photography...
Saira MacLeod Photography (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Capa's 'Falling Soldier' has been confirmed a fake in “Shadows of Photography” by José Manuel Susperregui, a communications professor at the Universidad del País Vasco. The image is from the Spanish Civil war is one of Robert Capa's most influential images. For 3 quarters of a century its validity has been questioned. The rough story is that Capa was working with these soldiers...
DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
On May 25, 1954, the career of Robert Capa, whose exploits as a war photographer had made him a legend in modern photography, came to an abrupt end when he stepped on a land mine on an obscure battlefield in...
snapped shot (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I'd like to share a select passage of a fascinating interview with our longtime "friend" Christoper Anderson , hosted by the esteemed Joerg Colberg: CA: Capitolio, in its book form, as you astutely observed, is not photojournalism, at least not in the way that that word is loaded. True, some of the pictures were taken and originally used in a journalistic context, but assembled as they are...
The Inkwell Bookstore Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Odd-as-f*ck adaptation news! Into The Wild actor Emile Hirsch is working on a horror movie remake of Shakespeare's Hamlet with Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke. Ancient adaptation news! Click here to read a letter from Philip K. Dick regarding the surprise, enjoyment, and hope for the future of science fiction films he felt after watching Blade Runner . Deadly dull adapt ation news! Columbia...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Following this summer’s Public Enemies (which is still my favorite new movie of 2009) Michael Mann plans to tell the story of war photographer Robert Capa. The film will look at his work during the Spanish Civil War and his romance with fellow war photographer Gerda Taro. According to First Showing , “Columbia has acquired the rights to “Waiting for Robert Capa,” a Spanish-language...
Reel Fanatic (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
It was nearly called Monkey Piston's Frying Circle That's really apropos of nothing at all, but in honor of Monty Python's big anniversary, that tidbit from John Cleese certainly made me chuckle. And before we get into either of the animation clips today, there's what I would have to call pretty big and equally good news about just what Michael Mann will be up to next. Though it failed to make my mid-year...
The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Doctor Who Matt Smith filming pics [spoilers] Much better Karen Gillan filming pics [spoilers] Film Working Title to remake Reykjavik-Rotterdam with Mark Wahlberg Eli Roth to make Cotton and Endangered Species Chris Rock to star in Will You Be My Black Friend? Sharon Stone and Chris Evans to star in Satisfaction Michael Mann to make Robert Capa film British TV Ian McKellen to star in drama school...
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