Word: capa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NAME CAPA evokes a vision of this giant photojournalist wading through war zones with bombs blasting, bullets flying, tanks roaring, with bodies strewn everywhere and nothing daring to touch this fearless...
...next evening TIME was cited for its achievements in photojournalism. For the ninth time in ten years, a photographer on assignment for TIME won the O.P.C.'s esteemed Robert Capa Gold Medal "for best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise." For the second year in a row, the winner was James Nachtwey. Said Nachtwey, who is on assignment in Nicaragua, in a prepared statement read for him: "Everyone with whom I have gone into the field owns a piece of this award...
FOOTNOTE: *The Capa medal is named for a LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954. Rebbot was fatally wounded in El Salvador on a 1981 assignment for Newsweek...
During the course of his cover labors, Friedrich discovered a little-known story about the D-day photograph that appears across pages 10 and 11 in this issue. Legendary Photojournalist Robert Capa snapped a series of pictures of the Normandy landing while under heavy fire, and then sent the film to the London office of LIFE. In releasing the dramatic photos, the magazine explained their blurry quality by noting that Capa's hands had moved. In fact, a 17-year-old darkroom assistant in London had applied too much heat as he dried Capa's negatives, destroying...
...Bullets tore holes in the water around me and I made for the nearest steel obstacle ..." said Robert Capa, the only photographer to go ashore with the first troops. "Fifty yards ahead of me, one of our half-burnt amphibious