Photographic timeline

1. PHOTOGRAPHIC
PROFILE
BY: MARK COHEN

2. ROBERT CAPA

3. ABOUT
• Robert Capa was born oct. 22, 1913 in Budapest, Austria-
hungry.
• His given name was Friedman Endre Erno
• At the age of 18, he decided there was no bright future for
him under the Hungarian regime and he left home to live in
Berlin
• Capa first wanted to be a writer but found work as being a
Photographer first
• During the time of the Nazi rise, Robert was Jewish and
found it was hard to work in Germany and eventually left to
France, where he changed his name to the name he has now.
http://famous-
photographers.com/robert-capa/

4. CAREER
• Robert capa worked for Dephot as a assistant in 1931 and 1932. Dephot is a “German
picture agency.”
• Capa took his first photo during the Spanish war. According to the website “Capa took
the picture that made him famous—a dying Loyalist soldier falling from the impact of
a bullet.”
• During World War II he work for Collier but done most of works for Life Magazine.
• In 1947 he joined with photographer Henri cartier Bresson and David Seymour to
found Magnum photos. The first cooperative agency for freelance photographers.
• Robert Capa wrote 4 books: Death in the Making (1937), Slightly Out of Focus (1947),
Images of War (1964), Children of War, Children of Peace (1991), and Robert Capa:
Photographs (1996).

5. MOTIVATIONS
• Robert Capa wanted to be a writer at first before moving to Berlin where he met
a photographer . “This is when he grew to love the art of photography.”
• Robert Capa motivation came from not wanting to sit around and not do
anything during war. “Robert Capa hated war. He once said, “the war
photographer’s most fervent wish is for unemployment. It is not always easy to
stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the suffering around
one.”

6. ERA
• Robert Capa style was Wartime Photography
and Photojournalism
• Robert work in the era when countries was at
war with each other. And where majority of his
photos came from
• He worked during the Spanish war, Japanese
War, World War II, Arab and Indochina War.
Joseph Frankel mentioned “images of war made
him one of the greatest photojournalists of the
20th century.”
http://www.slightly-out-of-
focus.com/robert_capa_north_africa.html

7. TECHNOLOGY • Robert Capa most famously used camera was the
Leica 35mm.
• During World War II he started using the Contax
brand camera. On the day he died, Chrissy Dean
stated “Robert Capa was using were a Contax and
a Nikon S 50mm.” The Leica “gave him a lot of
flexibility to capture action on the streets, as the
exposure times would go all the way to
1/1000th’s of a second.”

8. BIAS • Robert Capa had a controversial photo of an
image of a Spanish soldier, which seem like
being hit by a sniper and falling back in
1936.
• The image was controversy because editors
thought the photo was stage. It was a
misreported photo.
• “Some historians and journalists, notably
Philip Knightley, have argued that this is a
faked image. Posed by the soldier for Capa’s
camera.”
https://ethicalmartini.wordpress.c
om/2007/09/07/robert-capa-
was-that-photograph-really-real/

9. ETHICS
• Robert Capa wanted to be up close and involve in the action when taking a
photo.
• His most famous quote is “If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close
enough.” Capa felt the only way to show people that war is horrible, is by taking
pictures of the saddest and destruction of people lives for everybody to see.
• Robert Capa hated war. Capa felt that “the war photographer’s most fervent wish
is for unemployment. It is not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do
anything except record the suffering around one.”

10. IMPACT
• Robert Capa photos affected a lot of people doing the times of the war. His
photos showed the truth of what was actually happening in wars. It helped
people gets a understanding what was going on in the world.

11. Ted forbes
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=K1J0p8PGrDI

12. COMBINATION OF MY MAJOR
• The aspects of Accounting relate to photojournalism is the ethics of doing what is
right. As a accountant you have to follow rules and laws to complete your work
and its similar to photojournalism when taking a photo. You want to take the
right photo while following what is right or to do.

13. VIEWPOINT
• Robert cape had a strong impact on his brother Cornell Cap. Cornell says the
advice he used to give to other photographers is to ““Like people and let them
know it.” That is what he always did.”
• People seen him as the greatest war photographer.
• Capa gain respect from the public by putting his life in danger everyday to took
photos of war until the day he died.
• Capa die at the age of 40 in 1954 by stepping on a landmine.
• He was remember as the most decorated war photographer.

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SMOKE-DURING-AN-AIR-DRILL
• The three principles for the photo is texture,
in or out focus, and the feeling the photo
gives.
• The texture of the photo has a wet view to it.
There’s also smoke surrounding the image so
it’s hard to actually see what’s in the photo.
The photo seems to be out of focus. I don’t
think you get a good enough focus image
with the smoke taking up most of the image.
The has you question what exactly is
happening in the area. You can see that the
floor is cover and water and smoke
surrounding the area. It has me thinking that
maybe there was a car fire.

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RENAULT-FACTORY-FRANCE-0
• The three principles used are keep it simple,
obvious subject, and background.
• The photo doesn’t give us much to work
with. We don’t know who or why the people
are sleeping. The obvious subjects in the
photo are the two guys sleeping. Even
though there’s a lot going on in the
background, you still know who is the
subject. The background gives off a
distraction to the photo with newspapers and
equipment’s laying around. The room is small
and the objects makes the room feel clutter

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COMMANDER-RIO-SEGRE-ARAGÓN-FRONT-NEAR
• The three principles used is subject expression, black and
white, and depth of field.
• The subjects have a surprising and confusing facial
expressions. The subjects seem to be posing for the
photo which gives off an unreal feeling to the image. The
photo was taken in black and white. Color photography
wasn’t popular or used in the era. the black and white
gives off a unique feeling. The depth of the photo is
maximum focus. It brings our eyes to the two main
subjects. The background of the photo isn’t focus on
which gives no room for attention.
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