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...
fine nudes (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Ferenc Berko: Bombay, 1941 Vintage gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 9 13/16 inches Click on image to enlarge. Gitterman Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of vintage black and white photographs by Ferenc Berko. Ferenc Berkó (1916-2000) is part of long tradition of Hungarian émigré photographers, which includes Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László...
normblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Last month I posted about whether the famous Robert Capa photograph was authentic or faked. Here's a further report on that, in which the director of the International Center of Photography in Manhattan is quoted as cautioning people against jumping...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
New evidence that the famous Robert Capa photo, "Falling Soldier," was faked. New York Times : In “Shadows of Photography,” José Manuel Susperregui, a communications professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, concludes that Capa’s picture was taken not at Cerro Muriano, just north of Córdoba, but near another town, about 35 miles away. Since that location...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
"After nearly three-quarters of a century Robert Capa's 'Falling Soldier' picture from the Spanish Civil War remains one of the most famous images of combat ever. It is also one of the most debated, with a long string of critics claiming that the photo, of a soldier seemingly at the moment of death, was faked. Now, a new book by a Spanish researcher asserts that the picture could not have been...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.
C-MONSTER.net (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
Cindy, by Zoe Strauss. (Image courtesy of Zoe Strauss.) Untitled. The veracity of Robert Capa’s Falling Soldier has once again come into question - this time by a Barcelona daily. A narrated video at The Guardian explains the challenge; read the story here. RIP Julius Shulman, Frank McCourt. See another Shulman slideshow here. Bravo’s untitled reality show already drawing [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Experts who examined a cache of long-lost photos from the 1930s Spanish Civil War say it yielded a lot of new information, but failed to solve the biggest mystery - whether legendary photojournalist Robert Capa took the famous picture of a man at the instant he was killed by a bullet.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- In December 2007, three cardboard boxes were delivered to the International Center of Photography (ICP). It was widely reported that this “Mexican Suitcase” contained long-lost negatives of the Spanish Civil War taken by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and Gerda Taro , three leading twentieth century wartime photographers. Left behind when Capa and Chim were forced to...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/30/2009
A look inside Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” photography from the Spanish Civil War that was long thought to be lost.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Barcelona, Spain - For the first time in Spain the MNAC, in a joint production with the ICP, is to present a retrospective exhibition of the photographer Gerda Taro, a female pioneer in war photo-journalism and Robert Capa’s partner. The exhibition, bringing together 83 photographs and other documentary material, shows the enormous aesthetic quality of her work, its historical interest, and...
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