Auer 324. Koetzle 81 f. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 126 f. Roth, The Open Book 148 f. – Erste Ausgabe; dritte Buchveröffentlichung des „Greatest War-Photographer in the world“ (Picture post 1938) Robert Capa (eig. Endre Ernö Friedmann, 1913-1954). – „The blithe story (with pictures) of the top-notch cameraman whose work keeps interrupting a wonderful romance“ (Verlagswerbung). – „Robert Capa was a man of action and a storyteller, and Slightly Out of Focus is his best attempt to tell his story (in the context of his tory) with words and photographs. The book tells the slightly fictionalized tale of Capa’s escapades as a war correspondent during World War II, with a love story wrapped around it like a bow. Since Capa intended the book to be the basis for a screer play of a Hollywood movie (perhaps starring Robert Taylor and directed by Frank Capra), he did take some liberties. But Capa understood that fiction and documentary are two sides of the same coin long before the New Journalism. … On his way to not becoming a writer, he became along with his friends André Kertész and Henri Cartier-Bresson – one of the masters of small camera camera photography. His photographs are great because they reveal the comedy in the tragedy of life, and because they never forget their own terrible limitations. „It’s not easy,“ he wrote, „always to stand aside and be unable to do anything except to record the sufferings around one.“ After covering five wars, Capa stepped on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954 and died at age 41, the first American correspondent killed in Vietnam. When Charlie Rose recently asked Henri Cartier-Bresson (at age 92) if he had any regrets, Cartier-Bresson answered, “I regret that Chim [David Seymour] and Capa were killed too soon“.“ (A. Roth). – Capa berichtete seit 1936 für die Zeitschriften Vu und Regards über den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Sein bekanntestes Bild „Death of a loyalist soldier“ wurde am 23. 9. 1936 in Vu veröffentlicht. – „In Spanien entwickelte Capa seinen eigenen Stil – ihm gelang es wie nimandem zuvor, die militärische Aktion mit der Kamera festzuhalten, den Schrecken und die Tragik des Krieges in einem spezifischen Moment einzufangen“ (Katharina Menzel in Koetzle S. 82). – Schutzumschlag am Kapital unauffällig restauriert, sehr gutes Exemplar.
Original linen binding with typographically printed dust jacket. – First edition; third book publication by the ‘Greatest War Photographer in the World’ (Picture Post, 1938) Robert Capa (born Endre Ernö Friedmann, 1913–1954). – Capa reported on the Spanish Civil War for the magazines Vu and Regards from 1936 onwards. His most famous photograph, ‘Death of a Loyalist Soldier’, was published in Vu on 23 September 1936. ‘In Spain, Capa developed his own style – he succeeded like no one before him in capturing military action with his camera, capturing the horror and tragedy of war in a specific moment’ (Katharina Menzel in Koetzle, p. 82). Dust jacket inconspicuously restored at the top, very good copy.

Schlagwörter: Kriegsberichterstattung, Photojournalism, Photojournalismus, Reportage-Photographie, War photography, Weltkrieg <1939-1945>, World War (1939-1945)

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Auer 558. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 222 f. The Open Book 292 f. – Erste Ausgabe. – „Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip is an eccentric, audacious, and frequently annoying book that its author calls “as much an exercise of history as it is an experiment of alchemy.“ Originally presented as Lesy’s Ph.D. thesis at Rutgers, the book is also as much a document of its time as it is a reflection on the past. In the early ’70s, when all received wisdom was subject to skeptical ’interrogation,“ Lesy’s imaginative and radical reevaluation of the historical record became a campus cult book much as Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media had nearly a decade before. Drawing primarily from an archive of 3,000 images (culled from 30,000 glass-plate negatives) made by town photographer Charles Van Schaick and from newspaper accounts first printed in the Badger State Banner, Lesy lays out an intricate patchwork of fact and fiction whose blighted nexus is the Wisconsin community of Black River Falls betwee n the Years 1890 and 1910. Lesy approaches the material like a novelist or a New Journalist, supplementing terse news from the Banner with observations by „two mythical creatures, a town historian and a local gossip, and excerpts from Main Street, Spoon River Anthology, and other relevant texts. … The photographs aren’t much more convincing, but they’ve got a certain morbid fascination. Van Schaick was not an undiscovered small-town visionary like Disfarmer, but he was considerably more versatile than the Arkansas studio photographer, and Lesy includes his pictures of school groups, rural scenes, still lifes, parties, commercial facades, and even a muscular male nude among the expected array of formal and informal portraits. But since the book is haunted by death, the photos of the living are bracketed and overshadowed by pictures of babies dead in their coffins, of extravagant memorial wreaths, and of mourning or maddened females. Lesy’s decision to collage and manipulate some of these images, often simply by doubling them as if in a mirror, is in keeping with his approach to the other historical raw material here, which is to say at once respectful and fanciful. Some would call it fast and loose“ (V. Aletti in Roth). – Sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar der gesuchten gebundenen Ausgabe.

Schlagwörter: Photojournalism, Photojournalismus, Reportage-Photographie, USA

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Schlagwörter: Photojournalism, Photojournalismus

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