Word: capa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Capa was killed by a land mine at Thai Binh, as one Indochina war ended and another began. News photography in the U.S. focused instead on the 1958 Marine landing in Lebanon, Ike's departure, the enthralling arrival of the Kennedys. For the first time, the White House was deemed worthy of full-time photo coverage. In 1963, as historical events darkened, photojournalism regained some of its tragic power. The A.P.'S Malcolm Browne methodically photographed a Buddhist monk burning himself to death in a Saigon protest. A Dallas Times-Herald photographer caught the instant of Lee Harvey Oswald...
That kind of enterprise has brought TIME shooters a raft of awards this year, including top honors in photojournalism's three major competitions: the University of Missouri Magazine Photographer of the Year, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal and the World Press Photo's Oskar Barnack Award...
...where you don't really belong. Then, it was proms; now, it's the White House or the back rooms of the Kremlin." Erwitt has gained access to such figures as the president and Soviet party leaders as a freelance photographer for Magnum, a photographic agency, headed by Robert Capa...
...last October with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat (in the judges' view, "almost surely one factor in the opening of a new U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue") and for the cover story seven weeks later on the start of that dialogue. Also honored was photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, who received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for capturing "the chaos and panic provoked by a terrorist attack on a Catholic funeral in Northern Ireland...
This year's Capa award seemed especially ironic to Nachtwey, since the presentation came the day after the bombing of the Colombo bus station. Says he: "The recent news from Sri Lanka has underlined for me a sense of futility about effecting some kind of positive change in the world. But I believe journalists have to keep trying to shed some light on troubled areas...