Soldiers in trenches, North Africa

Dublin Core

Title

Creator

Capa, Robert

photographer

1913 - 1954

Hungarian

Date

1943; printed 1970s

Type

gelatin silver print; black-and-white photograph

work

Medium

photographic gelatin; silver halide

photographic paper

gelatin silver process; black-and-white photography

Extent

28.42 x 28.1 cm (11 3/16 x 11 1/16 inches)

Identifier

2002.076.002

2002.076.002.jpg

Rights

Copyright. Estate of Robert Capa. This image is presented as a "thumbnail" because it is protected by copyright. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art respects the rights of artists who retain the copyright to their work.

Description

photographer's stamp on verso; notations in pencil and notations typed in Russian on labek affixed to print

At the age of 22 Capa was in Paris, an unknown photographer with no money and little prospect of any success. Within a few months, he was on his way to Spain armed with one 35mm camera. From then on until 1954, when he was killed by a landmine in Vietnam, he was seldom far away from one of the major theaters of war. It was in Spain that Capa was to produce the photograph, "Moment of Death", that was to fashion his future and which has often been described as the greatest war picture of all times. From Spain he went to Hankow in 1938 to photograph the war between the Chinese and Japanese invaders. With the outbreak of World War II, Capa went to London, North Africa, Sicily, Salerno and Anzio with E Company and then to St. Laurent-sur-Mer, the Normandy beaches on D-Day, and across France with Patton to Berlin. In 1946 he was a founding member together with David Seymour, George Rodger and Henri Cartier-Bresson of the photo-journalistic group Magnum. In 1948 Capa covered the first Arab-Israeli War. This was followed by assignments in Vietnam which ended abruptly when he was killed by the explosion of a landmine on May 25, 1954.

Source

http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=robert+capa&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500063842

Publisher

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. State University of New York at New Paltz (New Paltz, New York, United States)

Photography Collection. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Relation

https://collections.hvvacc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/sdma/id/3033

Coverage

contemporary (generic time frame)

Contemporary (style of art)

Provenance

Gift of Greenberg, Howard & Howard Greenberg Gallery

Artwork Item Type Metadata

URL

http://hvvacc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/sdma/id/3033

https://collections.hvvacc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/sdma/id/3033