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...photographer Robert Capa distilled the secret of his craft into one sentence: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.'' Capa, who got one step too close when a landmine blew him up him in Indochina in 1954, lived by those words and in the process he forged a new photojournalism. His photographs were real, without the slightest scent of contrivance. They were too graphic and too close-up to be fake: when you see the subject's brain exiting the back of his skull, you know the shot is a one-time event, and that...
...play cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police officers made no more arrests than New York City cops, during Rizzo's eight years as mayor they were 37 times as likely to shoot unarmed citizens...
...gifted TIME photojournalists honored by their colleagues in recent weeks. In all, TIME gathered an extraordinary 30 national and international photo awards this year. Suau won both the Canon Photo Essayist award in its Pictures of the Year competition and the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for his gripping images of Grozny under assault by Russian troops. A second opc prize, the Olivier Rebbot Award, went to David Turnley for his photographs of Bosnian refugees. Capa, himself a great war photographer, once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." He would...
...private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant that the subjects of what used to be called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters by Aaron Siskind...
...work in South Africa, Nachtwey -- whose photos have appeared almost exclusively in TIME since 1984 -- received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the fourth time he has won this award. His next assignment, Rwanda, brought Nachtwey both the Magazine Photographer of the Year Award (his sixth) and, for his portrait of a Hutu man mutilated for refusing to take part in the killing of Tutsi, the World Press Photo of the Year (his second...