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<title><![CDATA[Death of a Loyalist Soldier - photo by Balakov]]></title>
<link>http://worldgaze.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/death-of-a-loyalist-soldier-photo-by-balakov/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>worldgaze</dc:creator>
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Death of a Loyalist Soldier, originally uploaded by Balakov.

Homage to Robert Capa. See the amaz]]></description>
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<span style="font-size:0.8em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1805926540/">Death of a Loyalist Soldier</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/balakov/">Balakov</a>.</span>
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<p>Homage to Robert Capa. See the amazing article in the New York Times about the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html" target="_blank">Robert Capa's Lost Negatives</a><br />
For more about Capa go the <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&#38;l1=0&#38;pid=2K7O3R14YQNW&#38;nm=Robert%20Capa" target="_blank">Magnum</a> or to <a href="http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2876507/" target="_blank">International Center Of Photography</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Robert Capa - Masters of Photography]]></title>
<link>http://stormridersbrainstorm.wordpress.com/?p=27</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stormridersp</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;If the photo ain&#8217;t good enough, you&#8217;re weren&#8217;t close enough&#8221;
Robert ]]></description>
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<p><strong>"If the photo ain't good enough, you're weren't close enough"</strong></p>
<p>Robert Capa</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Boxes, Parvati Nair, `Lost and Found' (5)]]></title>
<link>http://leftluggage.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/broken-silence-parvati-nair-lost-and-found-5/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>johnperivolaris</dc:creator>
<guid>http://leftluggage.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/broken-silence-parvati-nair-lost-and-found-5/</guid>
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When you come to think of it, the world is full of boxes. Boxes that overlap, collide, fit into one]]></description>
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<p>When you come to think of it, the world is full of boxes. Boxes that overlap, collide, fit into one another and contain yet more boxes inside. Boxes that release boxes. The image of the suitcase on the blog also brought thoughts of another suitcase to me. One that was less domestic or immediate, but important nonetheless, that I had read about in recent weeks. Capas lost suitcase [http://tinyurl.com/5tgu7b]. Filled with unseen images of the Spanish Civil War. Images that Capa himself believed to have been lost. A lost suitcase when found contains not possessions, but a cache. Findings. Treasure. The invaluable. And indeed, Capa's images of the Spanish Civil War are rightly invaluable. Think of Capa fleeing war-torn Paris for the safety of America, abandoning the contents of his dark room yet another box. Think too of the rolls of film transported from Paris in flimsy cardboard cases boxes too to Marseille, and from there, in the unlikely hands of a Mexican general, to Mexico City and now, in a final journey, to New York, to that vast repository of images yes, another box that is the International Center of Photography.<br />
Boxes shadow people. Even when put away, lost or left behind, they accompany them. Boxes remind us of our own mortality. Of journeys in life and death. In this case, though, the box has come back to life a reminder that a box, if closed, can always be reopened.<br />
Why is this find of Capa's images in a suitcase so meaningful? Not merely because they were Capa's but also because, in the box-like frame of each unearthed image, lie buried memories of Republican Spain. And so it is that this suitcase here leads me to think of Capa's suitcase and so marks a small gesture of unearthing, of emergence, of shedding light on what has lain invisible and silent for so long. I hear once again the voices of those I knew in Madrid back in the 1970s, when the dictatorship was on its last, shaky legs Paco, Toñín, Pepe Luis, Cristina, so many others. Who, in broken snippets, told me in whispers that they had been panaderos, albañiles, enfermeras, and then had found themselves becoming Republicans until the war ended. After that, they said, they had been nothing at all, people without memories, without a past. We were lucky to be alive. The neighbour next door would have told on us if he had found out. No me preguntes. Es mejor no recordar. Don’t ask so many questions. I prefer not to remember. It had been the only way to carry on and get by. I think of them whenever I look at capa’s images. These people I have known. They most probably are no longer alive. So if the finding of Capa’s images is singularly important for me, then it is because it honours them. No, it does not just honour them… it vindicates them. It vindicates who they once were. What they might have been and what they stood for. It validates a dream. When I think of Capa’s work, the image I find most striking is not that famous one of a falling soldier. It is one of a group of Republican women washing clothes in a thin stream of water. Engaged in the act of survival. Like these people I knew, old men in my barrio, who used to sit four hours on chairs out on the pavement in the evenings or who lived their weeks, yes, week after week, in the hope of winning the football pools. Old men in berets who had been gardeners, porters, doormen and messengers, old women who went shopping in the Mercado every morning to buy fresh fish and who walked around with curlers in their hair, these old men and women who had lived in silence and in forgetting for 36 long years. To think of Capa’s rescued images is to remember them.</p>
<p>[Text by Parvati Nair, © 2008]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[El Archivo Rojo]]></title>
<link>http://ceronegativo.wordpress.com/?p=135</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ceronegativo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[El Ministerio de Cultura ha colgado en internet las miles de fotos de &#8220;El Archivo Rojo&#8220;,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El Ministerio de Cultura ha colgado en internet las miles de fotos de "<a href="http://pares.mcu.es/ArchivoRojo/inicio.do" target="_blank">El Archivo Rojo</a>", el archivo fotográfico de la Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid, disponibles para su consulta pública.</p>
<p>Hay muchas instantáneas de los efectos de los bombardeos fascistas sobre Madrid; fotos de carteles pegados en las calles; fotos de anónimos y heroicos defensores de la ciudad y alguna de personalidades conocidas como <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Largo_Caballero" target="_blank">Largo Caballero</a>.<!--more--></p>
<p>Las fotos se pueden rotar, cambiar contraste o polaridad y ampliar, además de poder imprimirse. Pero lo que me ha parecido más interesante es que existe la posibilidad de que el visitante (internauta) pueda aportar datos a la exigua información que acompaña cada foto.</p>
<p>La mayoría de los veteranos de la Guerra Civil de mi agrupación han ido falleciendo. Una vida entera de lucha y calamidades  (y en muchos casos cárcel y torturas) pasa factura, pero es posible que alguno de los camaradas veteranos que quedan por las agrupaciones pueda reconocer a alguien en una foto, o</p>
<p>incluso ser el mismo el que aparece.</p>
<p>No hace mucho un <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/soy/elpepucul/20080130elpepucul_13/Tes">hombre de Barcelona se reconoció niño en una foto</a> de <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa" target="_blank">Robert Capa</a>. Debe ser una emoción indescriptible.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A Morte do Soldado Legalista]]></title>
<link>http://nerdcultbrega.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/a-morte-do-soldado-legalista/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vlmazon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nerdcultbrega.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/a-morte-do-soldado-legalista/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Death of a Loyalist Soldier, originally uploaded by Balakov.
Tirada em 1936 A Morte do Soldado Lega]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style="text-align:center;padding:3px;"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1805926540/"><img style="border:2px solid black;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/1805926540_0158d90259.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="246" /></a></div>
<p><span style="font-size:0.8em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1805926540/">Death of a Loyalist Soldier</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/balakov/">Balakov</a>.</span></p>
<p>Tirada em 1936 <a href="http://oglobo.globo.com/blogs/arquivos_upload/2007/11/129_232-Morte%20de%20um%20Soldado%20Legalista.jpg">A Morte do Soldado Legalista</a> é uma das fotos mais famosas de Robert Capa. Ela retrata o momento da morte de um soldado durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola.</p>
<p>A cena junto com outras grandes imagens da cultura ocidental recebeu essa bela versão em Lego. Aqueles que quiserem podem até comprar a imagem.</p>
<p>Mais uma vez o Lego mostra as suas versatilidade como brinquedo para todas as idades.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[1. La FOTOGRAFIA_Part.6]]></title>
<link>http://binat.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/73/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fiori+Belli</dc:creator>
<guid>http://binat.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/73/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Il Dopoguerra vide un&#8217;enorme espansione del rotocalco, settimanale illustrato il cui esempio m]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://binat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/060608-1601-1.jpg" alt="" align="left" /><span style="color:#993366;"><strong>Il Dopoguerra</strong></span> vide un'enorme espansione del rotocalco, settimanale illustrato il cui esempio maggiore fu la rivista americana <em><span style="color:#993366;"><strong>Life</strong></span></em>, nata nel 1936. Vi comparivano servizi fotografici talvolta frivoli, che raccontavano la vita dei regnanti o presentavano la nuova moda femminile, con le sue gonne larghissime in risposta alle limitazioni sul tessuto negli anni della guerra; talvolta, invece, i reportages erano molto impegnati, come quelli del grande fotografo <em><span style="color:#993366;"><strong>Robert Capa</strong></span></em> (1913-1959), morto mentre lavorava in Vietnam.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://binat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/060608-1601-2.jpg" alt="" align="right" />In tempi in cui la televisione non era ancora diffusa, il <span style="color:#993366;"><strong>fotogiornalismo</strong> </span>contribuì a creare icone popolari, riprodotte milioni di volte e destinate a una propagazione della medesima immagine così capillare da non avere precedenti.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Alfred Eisenstaedt, Il giorno della vittoria, 1945. Gelatina d'argento, 24x15 cm. Colonia, Museo Ludwig.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L'invenzione della fotografia, comunque, assume una portata che va al di là di quella che era la realtà storica e culturale dell'Ottocento, proiettandosi direttamente nel nostro tempo, nel quale l'immagine (fotografica, cinematografica o televisiva che sia) è arrivata ad influenzare addirittura il modo di vivere e di pensare di milioni di persone.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oggi la pittura si ispira alla fotografia ed esplora la vita contemporanea: la politica e la storia, il lavoro e il tempo libero, lo spazio sociale e la famiglia, lo spazio dell'individuo <img src="http://binat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/060608-1601-3.jpg" alt="" align="left" />moderno.</p>
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<p style="text-align:right;"><em>"L'amante della vita universale entra nella folla come in un immenso serbatoio di elettricità"</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">scrisse <strong>Charles Baudelaire</strong> nel saggio intitolato <em>Le peitre de la vie moderne</em> (Il pittore della vita moderna) apparso su "<em>Le Figaro</em>" nel 1863. Il poeta francese esortava il pittore moderno ad adottare come soggetto la vita effimera e in continuo mutamento delle nuove città. Nel Diciannovesimo secolo, all'inizio di quella che un secolo più tardi sarebbe divenuta nota come "società dello spettacolo", quando il mondo cominciava appena a riempirsi di immagini grazie alla fotografia, gli artisti esaltavano nei loro dipinti "l'istantaneità della vita", rappresentata e catturata dagli scatti fotografici.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">All'inizio degli anni Sessanta, un secolo dopo la comparsa del saggio di Baudelaire, un'intera generazione di artisti si rivolgeva di nuovo alle immagini dei media e alla fotografia in generale per re-inventare una forma di pittura della vita contemporanea. Questi artisti offrivano, attraverso la loro arte, la consapevolezza e la coscienza di vivere in una società inondata da un enorme numero di fotografie, riprodotte continuamente dalla pubblicità e dai mass media.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>"Cinema, televisione, riviste e giornali immergevano l'artista in un ambiente totale, e quella nuova atmosfera visiva era fotografica. Per qualche motivo non sembrava necessario rimanere aggrappati alla vecchia tradizione di contatto diretto con il mondo. Le riviste, o qualunque altro tramite visivo, potevano fornire uno stimolo altrettanto valido per la realizzazione di dipinti",<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;">dichiarò l'artista britannico <strong>Richard Hamilton</strong> nel 1969, ricordando il decennio appena trascorso.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://binat.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/060608-1601-4.jpg" alt="" align="left" />Per reazione alla moda dell'astrattismo che dominava da decenni, tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e l'inizio degli anni Sessanta pittori come Hamilton, <strong>Andy Warhol</strong>, <strong>Gerhard Richter</strong> e <strong>Michelangelo Pistoletto</strong> mostrarono la fonte fotografica delle loro opere, ed espressero la consapevolezza della loro possibile perdita di autorità sulla cultura visiva in una società in rapido mutamento.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>"Usando fonti fotografiche gli artisti riconoscevano implicitamente che non aveva più senso separare la creazione di quadri dall'incredibile abbondanza di immagini riprodotte meccanicamente, e con le loro opere indagavano, in misura diversa, come quell'onnipresente mezzo espressivo stesse alterando il nostro modo di vedere" </em>, scrive Ralph Rugoff.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Modificando e introducendo cambiamenti nelle dimensioni, nella messa a fuoco e nella grana, gli artisti aspiravano a prendere distanza dalle immagini troppo familiari, fornendo così l'occasione di rivalutarne il significato. La fotografia, vista non più semplicemente come un promemoria, un aide-memoire, diventava sia il soggetto che l'oggetto di quadri che rappresentavano la tradizione da un mezzo espressivo all'altro.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Alla fine degli anni Settanta, <strong>Martin Kippenberger</strong> analizzò una nuova relazione tra fotografia, vita quotidiana e arti: osservando che si vive in un mondo inondato di immagini, durante il suo soggiorno a Firenze nel 1976, dipinse una tela al giorno, basandosi in modo del tutto casuale su cartoline, immagini prese dai giornali e istantanee creando così un archivio di "cattiva" pittura.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oggi sempre più artisti scelgono di basare i loro dipinti su fotografie, immagini tratte dai mass media e da internet, istantanee scattate da una macchina fotografica o addirittura da un telefono cellulare. Tutta via, la visione "meccanica" dell'apparecchio fotografico presente nelle opere degli anni Sessanta non è al centro dell'interesse di questi artisti, che preferiscono espandere l'aspetto "pittorico" e studiare gli effetti che il dipingere partendo da fotografie produce sulla soggettività. Scegliere la pittura nel contesto di una società traboccante di immagini digitali significa comprendere l'incapacità della fotografia, ed il conseguente fallimento, di rappresentare la complessità della vita contemporanea. Questi artisti, attraverso un procedimento di prelevamento dell'immagine dalla fonte originaria (giornali, televisione, cinema) -di copiatura, di ritocco e di reinterpretazione personale- interrompono e rallentano il flusso di produzione delle immagini del nostro tempo, ampliando la durata dello sguardo sulla rappresentazione della vita moderna.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Morre Cornell Capa]]></title>
<link>http://vandehugo.wordpress.com/?p=181</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 18:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>vandehugo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Morreu nessa sexta-feira (23/05) o irmão mais novo de Endre Friedmann (Robert Capa), Kornell Friedm]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/arts/design/23cnd-capa.html?_r=1&#38;partner=rssnyt&#38;emc=rss&#38;oref=slogin" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-182" src="http://vandehugo.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/capa_4501.jpg?w=235" alt="" width="235" height="300" /></a>Morreu nessa sexta-feira (23/05) o irmão mais novo de Endre Friedmann (Robert Capa), Kornell Friedmann (Cornell Capa) de causas naturais aos 90 anos de idade em New York.</p>
<p>Fotógrafo da <a href="http://www.life.com/Life/" target="_blank">Life</a>, membro da <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/" target="_blank">Agência Magnum</a> e fundador da <a href="http://www.icp.org/" target="_blank">International Center of Photography</a>, Cornell - nome adquirido juntamente com a cidadania americana - sempre esteve vinculado ao trabalho de seu irmão e de outros importantes fotógrafos membros da agência como o grande Cartier-Breson.</p>
<p>O que eu não sabia era do excelente fotógrafo que era Cornell.<br />
Um gigante, posso dizer. O trabalho realizado durante a campanha JFK em 1960 e nos cem primeiros dias de seu governo é algo de tirar o fôlego (encontrei algumas fotos dessa campanha em um livro no Fnac).</p>
<p>A Magnum fez um homenagem e colocou um "<a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&#38;l1=0&#38;pid=2K7O3R14YRCX&#38;nm=Cornell%20Capa" target="_blank">slide</a>" com 48 fotos de Cornell.</p>
<p>O New York Times também fez um "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/05/23/arts/0523-CAPA_index.html" target="_blank">slide</a>" com 11 fotos.</p>
<p>A curiosidade é que Robert também morreu em um maio, o de 54, só que no dia 25, e não foi de causas naturais.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cornell Capa: 1918 - 2008]]></title>
<link>http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=106</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 21:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Steve Gorelick</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sgorelick.wordpress.com/?p=106</guid>
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 No words.
Just Cornell Capa&#8217;s magnificent and profound photos, exquisitely gorgeous even w]]></description>
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<p> No words.</p>
<p>Just <a href="http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2291957/">Cornell Capa's </a>magnificent and profound photos, exquisitely gorgeous even when the subject was relentless suffering;  master of just how subtle and nuanced and packed with "color" a black and white palette could be.</p>
<p>Brother of <a href="http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2876507/">Robert Capa</a> and founder of the <a href="http://www.icp.org/">International Center of Photography</a>.</p>
<p>It is sobering to think of the oppression, the suffering, the anguish that would have never come to light absent the body of work of the two extraordinary Brothers Capa.  </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/23/obituaries/23cnd_capa.337.2.jpg" alt="Cornell Capa, Photographer, Is Dead at 90" width="337" height="245" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="//www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/05/23/arts/23cnd_capa.2.html', '23cnd_capa_2', 'width=720,height=600,scrollbars=yes,toolbars=no,resizable=yes')"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/23/arts/capa_kennedy_190.1.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="190" height="132" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Magnum Photos]]></title>
<link>http://livo.wordpress.com/?p=206</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lieke Voermans</dc:creator>
<guid>http://livo.wordpress.com/?p=206</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I absolutely can&#8217;t sing but I can enjoy and admire people who are brilliant at it. The same go]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://livo.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/magnum-flyer-cs1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-209" src="http://livo.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/magnum-flyer-cs1.jpg?w=67" alt="" width="76" height="110" /></a>I absolutely can't sing but I can enjoy and admire people who are brilliant at it. The same goes for photography: I am a great fan of it, although I realise my talent is limited. Therefore I was even more amazed by the wonderful exhibition 'Magnum 60 years' in Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.</p>
<p>This exhibition contained the work of the 83 photographers of the photo agency <em>Magnum</em>. This agency was founded by the following photographers; Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour. They saw photography as the means to not only capture world events but also to make people think about it. The way they ran their agency was quite different at that time, ensuring full independency of the photographer by keeping the copyrights, deciding theirselves which pictures were used and how many etc.</p>
<p>Many of the pictures have become icons trough out the years, attributing to the almost heroic status of Magnum. Who for example doesn't know the picture of the student standing in front of the tanks on Tiananmen Square (Stuart Franklin)? Or the picture by one of my favourites, Robert Capa, taken on D-Day?</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-207" src="http://livo.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/stuart-franklin-tianamen-square.jpg?w=300" alt="Tianamen Square by Stuart Franklin" width="231" height="148" /><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-210" src="http://livo.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/robert-capa-d-day.jpg?w=300" alt="Robert Capa, D-Day shot" width="231" height="146" /></p>
<p>If you want to enjoy more pictures you can either go to their <a href="www.magnumphotos.com" target="_blank">website</a>, it showcases a lot of work and make sure you check out their <a href="http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays" target="_blank">in motion</a> part of the website. Given their 60th birthday, Magnum decided to bring out a 7 kg (!) weighing book called <em>Magnum Magnum </em>with a selection of their best and most important pictures throughout those 60 years of great photography. I received the book for my graduation, and it's a journey to go through those pictures and history. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Magnum-Brigitte-Lardinois/dp/0500543429/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1210853618&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Get it</a> before it's sold out!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Missing suitcase of Capa war photos found after 70 years]]></title>
<link>http://edmetheny.wordpress.com/?p=104</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 00:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Edmund Metheny</dc:creator>
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A suitcase containing thousands of undeveloped photographs o]]></description>
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<p> Wednesday, May 07, 2008</p>
<p>A suitcase containing thousands of undeveloped photographs of the Spanish Civil War shot by the great war photographer Robert Capa has reappeared after being lost for 70 years.</p>
<p>The haul of some 3,500 pictures – 120 rolls of film and sheaves of envelopes of cut negatives – taken by Capa, his companion Gerda Taro and fellow photographer David "Chim" Seymour was taken from Paris to Mexico in 1940 by a diplomat, and came to light only in the 1990s.</p>
<p>New York's International Centre of Photography, which was founded by Capa's brother Cornell, has acquired the suitcase containing three flimsy cardboard boxes of film. Researchers are still examining its contents, the centre's curator, Kristen Lubben, said this week in Barcelona at a conference on "historic memory".</p>
<p>The historic find came too late for the ICP's exhibition last September of works by Capa and Taro, but some rediscovered pictures may be included when the show travels to London's Barbican this autumn, and then to other European capitals, Ms Lubben told El Pais newspaper.</p>
<p>The ICP's chief curator, Brian Wallace, has described the discovery as "momentous... the raw material from the birth of modern war photography".</p>
<p>The cut shots in the envelopes already scrutinised have revealed previously unknown images of the brutal closing stages of Spain's civil war in 1939.</p>
<p>They date from 1937, and do not therefore include any that might form part of the sequence containing the famous "falling soldier" picture taken in Cordoba in 1936, Ms Lubben said.</p>
<p>Ms Lubben promised that the images would be posted on the ICP's website "as soon as possible". The uncut rolls of nitrate stock will take longer to study and be made public, she said. They are in remarkably good order for their age, but special equipment must be built for them to be scanned and copied safely because of their fragile and unstable state.</p>
<p>Careful peeks at the rolls have revealed pictures of Ernest Hemingway and the poet Federico Garcia Lorca.</p>
<p>"It's a mystery why these particular pictures were put together. It seems to have been a pre-selection for a joint project that in the end never happened," Ms Lubben said. "There are no negatives of the famous falling soldier, taken in September 1936. We looked to see if there were any in the same series, but there's nothing. We'll have to keep looking."</p>
<p>Capa fled Paris for America in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War, leaving the contents of his darkroom behind. He assumed the work had been destroyed when the Nazis occupied France in 1940, and he died in Vietnam in 1954 convinced they were lost. But his friend and assistant Imre "Chiki" Weisz entrusted the suitcase in 1940 to a Mexican diplomat in Paris, General Francisco Aguilar Gonzalez.</p>
<p>The general took it home to Mexico, where it reappeared among his possessions decades after his death in 1967. The ICP recently acquired the "Mexican suitcase" after protracted negotiations with the general's descendants.</p>
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<link>http://ilmestieredileggere.wordpress.com/?p=108</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>filippo cusumano</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Per capire a fondo uno scrittore è necessario conoscere la sua vita privata.
Gli incontri fatti, le]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/2400606982_e6891a4706.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="164" height="300" />Per capire a fondo uno scrittore è necessario conoscere la sua vita privata.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Gli incontri fatti, le esperienze vissute, perfino i piccoli aneddoti e le abitudini personali servono a completare il quadro, soprattutto quando si è in presenza di una personalità complessa.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">E' il motivo questo, che rende interessanti ed utili le biografie dei grandi scrittori.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2399787743_a515d0a476.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="252" height="248" />Se poi la biografia è ricchissima, oltre che di annotazioni sulla vita dello scrittore, anche di fotografie che illustrano i diversi episodi della sua vita, la lettura diventa, oltre che utile e interessante, anche molto divertente.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Utile, interessante, divertente: tutti e tre gli aggettivi si adattano pienamente ad "<strong>Album Hemingway</strong>" ( Oscar Mondadori 2007).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Azzeccato il titolo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">"Album Hemingway" non è una biografia con fotografie, è esattamente il contrario: è un album fotografico con delle annotazioni biografiche.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La parte scritta del volume è opera di uno studioso di alto livello come <strong>Masolino d'Amico</strong>. Le foto sono numerosissime: vediamo la casa natale di Hemingway di Oak Park, vicino a Chicago, i genitori dello scrittore ( lui alto e bello con una grande barba nera, molto simile al figlio, lei massiccia e con un'espressione autoritaria) il piccolo Ernest con la sorellina ( entrambi vestiti come bambine per un capriccio materno) .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2410/2400622394_48642e6f7a.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="500" height="348" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Vediamo Ernest tra i compagni della squadra di baseball della scuola superiore, tra i portantini della Croce Rossa sul fronte italiano durante la prima guerra mondiale, vediamo la sua casa di <strong>Parigi </strong>negli anni 20, quella di <strong>Kay West </strong>in Florida negli anni 30, per arrivare alla mitica <strong>Finca Vigia</strong> all'<strong>Avana, </strong>nella quale trascorse la maggior parte degli ultimi anni della sua vita.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Confrontiamo tra loro le fisionomie delle <strong>sue quattro mogli</strong>. Le prime due si assomigliano tra loro ( brune, viso dolce, espressione protettiva, da ragazza della porta accanto) così come sembra che si assomiglino tra loro le ultime due ( entrambe giornaliste  e scrittrici, bionde, sofisticate, algide) come se lo scrittore nel corso della sua vita avesse coltivato due ideali diversi di bellezza femminile.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Insomma il libro è un appassionante tuffo nella vita di un uomo che sin dagli anni della gioventù fu sempre al centro dell'attenzione, braccato ovunque da fotografi e giornalisti decisi a esaltarne o a smitizzarne la leggenda.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Il libro è ricchissimo anche di particolari.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Alcuni ci confermano quello che sapevamo già, come quelli che riguardano la dipsomania dello scrittore la sua passione per la boxe .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>"Di regola Hemingway cominciava a bere non appena sveglio- e spesso si alzava alle quattro e mezzo del mattino- continuando fino alla cena. Beveva vino ai pasti e liquori durante il giorno, anche due o tre bottiglie di whisky o di brandy" </strong></em>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>"Era in grado di offrire cento dollari a chiunque degli indigeni di Bimini fosse in grado di resistergli per tre riprese con i guantoni da sei once"</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ma emergono anche particolari nuovi come "<strong>l'indifferenza di Hemingway nelle questioni riguardanti la sua pulizia personale" </strong>( che la terza moglie <strong>Martha Gellhorne</strong> avrebbe stigmatizzato in un libro successivo al divorzio).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3018/2399777993_5a6accbd12.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="500" height="415" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Divertente è, tra i tanti aneddoti, quello riguardante l'amicizia tra lo scrittore e <strong>Gary Cooper.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Hemingway sperava che l'attore potesse essere il protagonista ( come poi in effetti accadde) del film che stava per essere ricavato dal suo romanzo sulla guerra di Spagna "Per chi suona la campana".</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lo invitò così a trascorrere alcuni giorni nella sua casa di <strong>Sun Valley</strong>. Apprendiamo dal libro che durante quel periodo la moglie di Hemingway tormentò il marito, famoso per la sua trasandatezza nel vestire, additantondogli come modello di eleganza e di stile il famoso attore.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Apprendiamo anche che i due uomini in quel periodo andarono a caccia quasi tutti i giorni e che l'attore sparava molto meglio di Hemigway con grande disappunto di quest'ultimo che attribuiva i suoi difetti all'età (aveva allora appena 41 anni!) e agli eccessi nel bere.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2400612410_b4a25bbc2d.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="340" height="425" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Insomma, se amate Hemingway e volete fare una full immersion nella sua vita pubblica e privata, questo libretto pieno di bellissime fotografie ( alcune son addirittura del mitico <strong>Robert Capa</strong>) è sicuramente il modo più divertente e meno impegnativo per farlo.</p>
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<link>http://libreriamirada.wordpress.com/?p=17</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gianlucacostantini</dc:creator>
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Modotti. Una donna del ventesimo secolo di Angel de la Calle € 16,00  pp. 128
Una biografia ma an]]></description>
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<div><span class="t11">Modotti. Una donna del ventesimo secolo di Angel de la Calle </span><span class="t11">€ 16,00  pp. 128</p>
<p></span><span class="t11">Una biografia ma anche un romanzo grafico. L’avventura di una donna che consacrò la vita all’arte e alla rivoluzione.<br />
La decade degli anni venti del secolo scorso riunì e diede impulso a buona parte della creatività artistica, politica e sociale che caratterizzò il resto del secolo. In quegli anni, a Città del Messico si incontrano alcuni dei personaggi che daranno luce, immagini, opere e passioni al mondo intero. Diego Rivera, Mayakowski, Bernard Traven, Edward Weston, John Dos Passos, Augusto Cesar Sandino, Alexandra Kollontai, Frida Kahlo… e Tina Modotti, l’emigrante italiana di San Francisco, la fotografa, la stella di Hollywood, del cinema muto, la modella di fotografi e pittori. L’amante di Weston, il padre della fotografia americana; del muralista Xavier Guerrero; di Julio Antonio Mella, fondatore del partito comunista di Cuba; del comandante Carlos del V° reggimento della guerra civile spagnola. Modotti, la militante comunista, la Mata Hari del Comintern, la combattente delle Brigate Internazionali in Spagna, l’amica di Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado, Robert Capa e Hemingway.<br />
Una vita di avventura e sacrificio, di sangue e di romanticismo, di intrigo e morte. Tutto questo è Modotti, una delle graphic novel più emozionanti degli ultimi anni. Tina, una donna del ventesimo secolo, una figura quasi dimenticata che viene finalmente riscoperta. Introduzione di Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Imperdibile!</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Berühmte Fotos mit Lego nachgestellt]]></title>
<link>http://okej.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/beruhmte-fotos-mit-lego-nachgestellt/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Steffen</dc:creator>
<guid>http://okej.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/beruhmte-fotos-mit-lego-nachgestellt/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Death of a Loyalist Soldier, ursprünglich hochgeladen von Balakov, das Original vom Fotografen Rob]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1805926540/"><img style="border:solid 2px #000000;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/1805926540_0158d90259_m.jpg" alt="" /></a> <span style="font-size:0.9em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/1805926540/">Death of a Loyalist Soldier</a>, </span>ursprünglich hochgeladen von <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/balakov/">Balakov,</a> das Original vom Fotografen Robert Capa ist <a title="http://okej.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/robert-capas-verlorene-negative/" href="http://okej.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/robert-capas-verlorene-negative/" target="_blank">hier</a> zu sehen.</p>
<p>Unbedingt das Flickr-Album "<a title="Classics in Lego" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157602602191858/" target="_blank">Classics in Lego</a>" ansehen!<br />
Und wer dann noch nicht genug hat: Mike Stimpson macht viele <a title="Alle Lego Fotos von Mike Stimpson" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/sets/72157603412185394/" target="_blank">Lego-Fotos</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Brincando com Lego]]></title>
<link>http://abelem.wordpress.com/?p=188</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>abelem</dc:creator>
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Não percam o Flickr Balakov. É genial. O fotógrafo britânico Mike Stimpson brinca com Lego e re]]></description>
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<p>Não percam o Flickr <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakov/" target="_blank">Balakov</a></b>. É genial. O fotógrafo britânico <font color="#000000"><b>Mike Stimpson</b> </font>brinca com <b>Lego</b> e recria imagens clássicas da história da fotografia. É <b>Cartier-Bresson</b> (acima), <b>Robert Capa</b>, <b>Eddie Adams</b>, <b>Marc Riboud</b> entre outros.</p>
<p>Tem mais coisa com Lego...Pra ver as fotografias clássicas, vá na galeria "Classics in Lego".</p>
<p>Tem mais! Mike tem outro Flickr com o <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/balakovsetup/" target="_blank">making of</a></b> das fotos. Imperdível.</p>
<p>Quem achou o Balakov no Flickr foi a fotógrafa <b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pribuhr" target="_blank">Priscilla Buhr</a></b>, do Jornal do Commercio.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Galería con fotos perdidas de Robert Capa]]></title>
<link>http://paubcn.wordpress.com/?p=270</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Pau</dc:creator>
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Ya hace un tiempo os hablé de las fotos perdidas de Robert Capa que se habían encontrado. Debido]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <a href="http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ziff/indexsp.html" title="El Malet�n Mexicano" target="_blank"><img src="http://paubcn.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/pasionaria.jpg" alt="Paionaria" /></a></p>
<p>Ya hace un tiempo os hablé de las <a href="http://paubcn.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/los-carretes-perdidos-de-robert-capa/">fotos perdidas de Robert Capa</a> que se habían encontrado. Debido a que las fotos se mostrarán en una exposición programada para el 2009, en el momento que se hizo pública la noticia no se enseñaron muchas fotos de las encontradas.</p>
<p>Pues a partir de ahora y gracias a Trisha Ziff (comisaria de fotografía y encargada de gestionar el hallazgo) podemos contemplar una galería de imágenes llamada "<a href="http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ziff/indexsp.html" target="_blank">El Maletín Mexicano</a>", en donde se exponen algunas de esas instantáneas hechas por Capa, <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Taro" target="_blank">Gerda Taro</a> y <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour" title="Wikipedia" target="_blank">David Seymour "Chim"</a>. Además, también relata las peripecias que se han vivido para conseguir sacar a la luz esos carretes. La galería también va acompañada de una preciosa música de guitarra.</p>
<p>La foto que podéis ver al principio del post, es una instantánea de "<a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Ib%C3%A1rruri" title="Wikipedia" target="_blank">La Pasionaria</a>" hecha por <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour" title="Wikipedia" target="_blank">David Seymour "Chim"</a>.</p>
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<p>Enlace <a href="http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ziff/indexsp.html" target="_blank">El Maletín Mexicano</a> &#124; Visto en <a href="http://www.conilenlared.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080322-114259" target="_blank">Punto Convergente</a></p>
<p>Véase también <a href="http://paubcn.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/los-carretes-perdidos-de-robert-capa/" rel="bookmark">Los carretes perdidos de Robert Capa</a> &#124;  <a href="http://paubcn.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/solucion-para-estandarizar-la-informacion-iso-incrustada-en-la-informacion-exif-de-una-foto/" rel="bookmark">Galería de Magnum Photos</a> &#124; <a href="http://paubcn.wordpress.com//?random" rel="bookmark">Post aleatorio</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA[El maletín mexicano de Robert Capa]]></title>
<link>http://queno.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/el-maletin-mexicano-de-robert-capa/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://queno.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/el-maletin-mexicano-de-robert-capa/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Gracias a Fotomaf acabo de descubrir esta web de la comisaria de fotografía Trisha Ziff, que fue la]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div align="justify">Gracias a Fotomaf acabo de descubrir <a href="http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ziff/indexsp.html">esta web</a> de la comisaria de fotografía Trisha Ziff, que fue la persona encargada de gestionar la recuperación de los <a href="http://queno.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/las-fotos-perdiadas-de-robert-capa/">negativos perdidos de Capa</a>, dónde nos encontramos algunas de las imágenes y toda la historia de la recuperación de estos negativos.La web está diseñada de una forma exquisita y es de una navegación sencilla e intuitiva. Del todo recomendable.</p>
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<p>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fotografia" class="performancingtags" rel="tag">fotografia</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/negativos" class="performancingtags" rel="tag">negativos</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Robert%20Capa" class="performancingtags" rel="tag">Robert Capa</a></p>
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<link>http://himsel.wordpress.com/?p=12</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>himsel</dc:creator>
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Now, where are my car keys&#8230;
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<p>Now, where are my car keys...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A história da "maleta mexicana"]]></title>
<link>http://vandehugo.wordpress.com/?p=154</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trisha Ziff conta a história da famosa &#8220;maleta mexicana&#8221; com mais de 3000 fotos de Robe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1970269/" target="_blank">Trisha Ziff</a> conta a <a href="http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/ziff/indexsp.html">história</a> da famosa "<a href="http://vandehugo.com/2008/01/27/capa-esta-mais-vivo-que-nunca/" target="_blank">maleta mexicana</a>" com mais de 3000 fotos de Robert Capa.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I Grandi Maestri della Fotografia (2): Come fare Fotografia?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forse il più grande fotografo di Guerra del secolo scorso ci viene in aiuto dicendoci come ci si de]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forse il più grande fotografo di Guerra del secolo scorso ci viene in aiuto dicendoci come ci si deve porre nei confronti del soggetto della fotografia.</p>
<p align="center"><b>"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough."</b></p>
<p align="center"><i>Robert Capa</i></p>
<p>Se non si è nel vivo dell'Azione, sicuramente le nostre foto non saranno buone, perchè mancheranno di <i>pathos</i>, mancheranno di sentimento, ma soprattutto mancheranno del soggetto, perchè le buone fotografie non sono quelle che riescono a riprendere tutto non esprimendo niente, ma quelle che riprendono un particolare capace di evocare il tutto.</p>
<p>[fonte: <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&#38;l1=0&#38;pid=2K7O3R14YQNW&#38;nm=Robert%20Capa" target="_blank">Agenzia Magnum Photo</a>]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[World Press Photo of the Year.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today we hand over the Blog to award winning photographer Sion Touhig who has worked for UK and inte]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today we hand over the Blog to award winning photographer <a href="http://sionphoto.blogs.com/sionphoto/">Sion Touhig</a> who has worked for UK and international newspapers and magazines since 1991, covering stories such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and strife in the Balkans and Palestine. <a href="http://sionphoto.blogs.com/sionphoto/">Sion</a> gives us his views on this years <em><a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org/">World Press Photo Award</a></em> and related issues.</p>
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<p><strong>WORLD PRESS PHOTO</strong> of the Year 2007.  Tim Hetherington, UK, for <em>Vanity Fair</em>.  American soldier resting at bunker, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 16 September. Published here by kind permission of World Press Photo.</p>
<p><strong>Through a Glass, Darkly...</strong><br />
by <a href="http://sionphoto.blogs.com/sionphoto/">Sion Touhig</a>.</p>
<p>It's <em><a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&#38;task=blogsection&#38;id=18&#38;Itemid=187&#38;bandwidth=high">World Press Photo</a></em> award time again, and like nearly every year, the winning image (<em>this time by <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/01/afghanistan_slideshow200801?slide=15">Tim Hetherington</a></em> ) has caused all kinds of <a href="http://blogs.smh.com.au/photographers/archives/2008/02/world_press_photo_your_say.html">ructions</a> <a href="http://www.lightstalkers.org/world-press-photography-like-always-">a</a><a href="http://www.lightstalkers.org/world-press-photography-like-always-">round</a> and <a href="http://www.ball-saal.com/ThirdParty/blog/?p=517">about</a>.</p>
<p>To be honest, the only decent response is to congratulate all the winners, but it's worth remembering the contest is called not the <em>'World Photo Award'</em>, but the <em>World Press Photo </em>award (WPP).  It's ultimately pointless elevating one image to encapsulate a whole years news, but some of the criticisms do have some validity, in that journalism seems to have been often displaced in favour of aesthetic concerns at the WPP.</p>
<p>Aesthetics needn't outweigh journalistic enquiry, you can have both - but <a href="http://blog.melchersystem.com/2008/02/08/dark-blurry-slightly-incomprehensible-and-borderline-boring/">Paul Melchers blog argument</a> is that in a competition which is concerned with press photography, you'd assume the judges would be looking for an image that satisfied both pictorial <em>and</em> journalistic concerns.</p>
<p>I think the winning image is intriguing, but it doesn't really tell me anything I don't already know - and perhaps even tells me less about whats going on.</p>
<p>The blurred image clearly shows a US soldier at the end of his tether...but because of what? In Afghanistan, the largest military power in history is putting huge efforts into bending one of the poorest nations on Earth to it's will.</p>
<p>Yet by viewing this image I'm supposed to empathise with the more powerful party and to shrug off the growing and largely unaccounted <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1636551,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics">civilian casualties</a> caused by their activities.</p>
<p>Pictures like these (<em><a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&#38;task=view&#38;id=1097&#38;Itemid=187&#38;bandwidth=high">and the story its taken from</a></em>) construct a developing <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1668">consensus narrative</a> about Afghanistan and Iraq, in the same way a media/popular culture consensus was constructed about Vietnam...that it was a <a href="http://www.helium.com/tm/403349/article-discusses-scenes-apocalypse">tragedy for the US</a> only, instead of what it really was - the military might of the Worlds most powerful nation, laying waste to a poor country and <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901621,00.html">slaughtering</a> its civilian population, for ultimately futile strategic aims.</p>
<p>Perhaps that sounds <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080205_iraqs_tragic_future/">familiar</a>? It probably will to average Afghans, as they endure the consequences of yet another superpowers '<em>boots on the ground</em>'.</p>
<p>With neither present UK or future US political leaders talking about military withdrawal, I don't think its acceptable any longer to uncritically look at military images taken in Afghanistan or Iraq, and celebrate them simply on the sole aesthetic grounds that they carry on the pictorial legacy of Robert Capa.</p>
<p>The D-Day troops depicted by Capa on Omaha Beach were doing something markedly different to what US troops did in Vietnam, and are doing now in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p><span class="style2">Robert Capa's  <a href="http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.ViewBoxInsertion_VPage&#38;R=2TYRYDGO4UQ8&#38;RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&#38;CT=Story&#38;SP=Story">blurred photographs</a> of soldiers</span> at their tethers end, shoulder-deep in seawater amidst withering gunfire, were arguably images of liberators, and Capa had recognised and <a href="http://warchronicle.com/journalists/capa4.jpg">documented</a> <a href="http://www.indypendent.org/2007/05/23/fighting-fascism-the-old-fashioned-way-%E2%80%9Cwe-learned-how-to-act-instead-of-just-talk%E2%80%9D/">anti-Fascist struggle</a> a damn sight earlier than most. His lover, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/21/arts/20070922_TARO_SLIDESHOW_index.html">Gerda Taro</a>, died recording it.</p>
<p>As repugnant as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbism">Qutbism</a> is, it simply does not present the same dire existential threat that Nazism posed in June 1944, and whatever threat of Islamic militancy that exists now, has been increased, not lessened, by the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The context of these current conflicts and WWII is very different, but the photographic depiction often, is not.<br />
In many examples of contemporary photojournalism from Afghanistan and Iraq, deeply embedded (<em>excuse the pun</em>) pictorial motifs of liberation and <a href="http://www.alfredny.biz/09-11-2001_Tribute/images/09-11-01_raising_the_flag.jpg">sacrifice</a> are being used to either <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2obs28">endorse</a>, ignore or excuse<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2sl6xz"> economic</a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3c79xc">military</a> imperialism.</p>
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<p><strong>AN AFGHAN</strong> woman passes through a Northern Alliance frontline position.  The woman and other refugees are fleeing US aerial bombing of Taliban fighters around Khanabad and Kunduz.   Northern Afghanistan, 18th Nov 2001.  Photo by Sion Touhig.  Published here by kind permission of Sion Touhig.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Foto: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times</p>
<p>Jag har alltid varit svag för myter, sagor och historier, och jag tycker det är speciellt intressant men moderna myter. Jag vet inte varför, men jag tycker nog det är lite trist att det på något sätt deklareras att tiden för alla stora sagor och berättelser är slut. Allt går att förklara och arkivera, jag tror att berättelser har ett sätt att knyta ihop människor och skapa en gemenskap. Jag vet att många gillar att läsa om dom arbetsplatsberättelser som bland annat publiceras här, och jag vill tro att det inte enbart är för att man dra samma politiska slutsatser.  Jag har för övrigt skrivit om <a href="http://kimmuller.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/paris-hilton-och-corporate-storytelling-del-1/">berättande</a> här.</p>
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<p>"Om dina bilder inte är tillräckligt bra, är du inte tillräckligt nära."<br />
Robert Capa</p>
<p>Så nu till dagens ämne; världens kanske mest berömda krigsfotograf, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa" title="Robert Capa - Wikipedia">Robert Capa</a> (som bland annat tog den berömda bilden ovan från spanska inbördeskriget) lämnade Paris i all hast vid andra världskrigets utbrott 1939. Han hade så bråttom så han lämnade kvar en hel del negativa i ett parisiskt mörkrum. Själv trodde han fram till sin död i Vietnam 1954 att negativen förstördes under nazisternas ockupation. Denna gång i Vietnam kom Capa lite väl nära och trampade på en landmina och dog.</p>
<p>Men det har hela tiden funnits ihärdiga rykten som säger att Capas försvunna foton, de flesta av dom tagna under spanska inbördeskriget som slutade 1939, fortfarande har existerat. Rykten blev bara mer ihärdiga runt 1995 och har nu, nästan 70 år senare, dykt upp i Mexico.</p>
<p>Och som sig bör är det en bra historia som ligger bakom, det har visat sig att en mexikansk diplomat och general, som arbetade under Pancho Villa, kom över negativen och tog med sig dom hem till Mexico, där de verkar ha varit i familjen ägo fram tills december 2007. Nu är de på International Center of Photography i Manhattan, som startades av Robert Capas bror.</p>
<p>“This really is the holy grail of Capa work,” säger Brian Wallis, chef på centret.</p>
<p>Uppdaterat: <a href="http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/litteratur/artikel_961105.svd">SvD</a> har idag en recension av Capas memoarbok Från Nordafrika till Berlin (Slightly Out of Focus, 1947).</p>
<p><a href="http://intressant.se/intressant">Tycker du att detta är intressant? Tryck då här så får fler läsa det</a></p>
<p>Läs mer på:  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html" target="_blank" class="bb-url external-link">New York Times</a>, <a href="http://www.popularhistoria.se/o.o.i.s?id=54&#38;vid=216">Populär Historia</a></p>
<p>En annan som diktat om Lilla Karachi är <a href="http://kirira.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/dikt-angaende-blockaden-av-restaurang-lilla-karashi-i-gamla-stan/">Som jag bäddar</a>.</p>
<p>Konfliktare som bloggar: <a href="http://seeyouinhell.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/schlagern-och-hyresratterna/">Red Metal</a>, <a href="http://vidalatina.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/coming-soon/">Vida Latina</a> och <a href="http://slutstadium.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/de-nya-skolpoliserna/">slutstadium</a>.</p>
<p>Läs även andra bloggares åsikter om <a href="http://bloggar.se/om/fotografi" rel="tag">fotografi</a>, <a href="http://bloggar.se/om/myter" rel="tag">myter</a>, <a href="http://bloggar.se/om/spanska+inb%F6rdeskriget" rel="tag">spanska inbördeskriget</a>, <a href="http://bloggar.se/om/robert+capa" rel="tag">robert capa</a>, <a href="http://bloggar.se/om/" rel="tag"></a></p>
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