Word: capa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungarian-born Robert Capa, a friendly enemy alien, was in a tough spot. Hopefully, he yelled back, "Take it easy!" but the trigger-happy G.I., hearing his guttural accent, began to shoot. There was only one thing...
Troubleshooter. Capa was always getting in & out of such scrapes, partly because his job was to find trouble, and partly because his pidgin-toed English was not always a help. But he came back with pictures that are an eloquent one-man record of World War II. Last week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before...
...pictures bear captions, or need them: the faces of the liberated, the vanquished and the conquerors, alive & dead, speak for themselves. A great picture, by Capa's definition, "is a cut out of the whole event, which will show more of the real truth of the affair to someone who was not there than the whole scene...
...Robert Capa, war-going LIFE photographer, parachuted into Germany last week with the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...Wert , Capa and I live at Lancaster - Mary Welsh is at the Ritz - others are bivouacking at the Grand Hotel. But we all get together at the Hotel Scribe, and almost any morning you can see Wert, Capa, Walton, Welsh and Landry lined up at the rail of the balcony planning the day's operations...