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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...
Like most artists who die at the height of their fame, Robert Capa has acquired a mythical persona which totally distorts the real man in the view of both his admirers and critics. But it was more than his coverage of battlefields which created this myth. Capa himself incessantly worked at building and maintaining this mythical image of almost god-like stature. Robert Capa, who some have called the greatest war photographer of all time, was a man by himself, for himself...
...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...
...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