Word: capa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are perhaps half-a-dozen living photographers who are seriously and solely engaged in making the camera tell what concentrated truth they can find for it. One. the oldest, is Alfred Stieglitz. Another is a Hungarian war photographer, Robert Capa (TIME, Feb. 24), now in China. A third, one of the most adventurous, is a 29-year-old vagabond Frenchman named Cartier-Bresson, whose abilities sober critics have called "magical." Apparently carefree but quick on the trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their...
...gore and excitement, one English agency was supposed to have complete sets of both armies' uniforms, ready to re-enact any battle. Then came the flood of propaganda horror pictures, real but limited photographically. The Spanish war's first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were recent photographs taken at Teruel, showing Loyalist soldiers, casual with cold, going through ruined houses in search of snipers...
...black-browed fatalist of 24, Capa has strung along with Leftist attacks lightly armed with a Leica. His wife, Photographer Gerda Taro, was crushed by a Leftist tank last year during the retreat from Brunete. Capa's work in Spain has made him one of the world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert...
...Five-Year Plan now appears in English, illustrated with the same drawings as the edition taught today in Soviet schools ($1.75).-ED. Dutch Stories Sirs: Thank you for squibs Netherlandish: "Waterier Prize" (Peace); "Sir Henry Deterding" (Oil); "Dutch Empire" (Gov. Gen. Davis' East Indian jaunt); "Hollandish Opening" (Capa-blanca's chess...
...greatest number of opponents, but not the greatest number of games. In 1922 at the National Athletic Club in Montreal, Frank Marshall, U. S. master, played 155 on as many boards, won 126 games, drew 21, lost 8. His opponents, however, were not as able as Capa-blanca...