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"A powerful story nimbly told. For devotees of fine photography or accounts of World War II, the Modern Library 's reprinting is a welcome gift."
-- "Tampa Tribune and Times
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"Capa's work is itself the picture of a great heart and an overwhelming compassion. . . . He could photograph motion and gaiety and heartbreak. He could photograph thought. He captured a world."
-- John Steinbeck
"Above all--and this is what shows in his pictures--Capa, who spent so much energy on inventions for his own person, has deep, human sympathy for men and women trapped in reality."
--John Hersey
-- "Tampa Tribune and Times
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"Capa's work is itself the picture of a great heart and an overwhelming compassion. . . . He could photograph motion and gaiety and heartbreak. He could photograph thought. He captured a world."
-- John Steinbeck
"Above all--and this is what shows in his pictures--Capa, who spent so much energy on inventions for his own person, has deep, human sympathy for men and women trapped in reality."
--John Hersey
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In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa recounts his terrifying journey through the darkest battles of World War II and shares his memories of the men and women of the Allied forces who befriended, amused, and captivated him along the way. His photographs are masterpieces -- John G. Morris, Magnum Photos' first executive editor, called Capa "the century's greatest battlefield photographer" -- and his writing is by turns riotously funny and deeply moving.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book to have a visual tale of the WWII, and a famous and good one. I thought i was going to look at the pictures, think about them, read the captions and then put the book on my history shelf. Instead i found a fascinating, gripping, funny yet sad personal tale of the events. Capa appears to the reader as an incredibly likeable man, whose experience around the european theatre of the war touches everyone at some point. I read about his days in my hometown of napoli with a knot in the stomach, making his feelings of then, mine, today. You put the book down missing Capa's irony, and his company. Missing his words, his thoughts, his feelings, both from his writings and his photographs. A great reading, a great visual collection.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Photography is all about recording a snapshot in time. This book is a real life account of what photography means to some people. The descriptions given of some of the situations Capa found himself in and the lengths he went through to get there are outstanding. The linking together of what was going through his mind as and when he was taking his pictures brings the pictures themselves to life. After you have read this book, you will want to see more of Capa's pictures. Look into their eyes!
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Robert Cappa gives the eyes of his viewers a close up on a Europe ravaged by war; so close, it led finally to Cappa's death. Slightly Out of Focus, written like a tale told to old friends over a beer, shows us that not only did Cappa have an immense amount of talent for photography, but he had the extra spark that gave him the opportunities to put himself in the right place at the wrong time; brilliant wit and bags of charm. From wining and dining top generals to charming the pretty girls, Cappa had such a love of life that I'm suprised he ever wanted to risk it with his amazing tales of darting around war torn Europe looking for the next bit of action. Cappa didn't want to be seen as herioc for the enormous risk he took in showing the world the horror of war, he was just doing what came naturally. This is his tale of how one man with a camera spent the war, and what a story he tells. Which is why I couldn't put it down and was sad that his tale only lasted one day.
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Possibly one of the fullest human beings that has ever lived
When I bought this book I was expecting a sad and brutal account of the war, considering what Capa has been trough. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Katkiller
a very pleasant surprise
Only when I read this book did I discover that Capa's original ambition was to be a writer, not a photographer - and it shows. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2007 by Boris
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