Slightly Out of Focus: The Legendary Photojournalist's Illustrated Memoir of World War II (Modern Library War)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375753966 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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We had enough liquor from a captured Gestapo warehouse to keep our singing throats from drying out." Always on the frontlines (he was killed in 1954 in what would later become known as the Vietnam War), Capa went ahead with the parachute invasion of Sicily even though he had been fired from Colliers Weekly--flying in with a squadron of young soldiers he refers to as "boys." When Capa's turn came to jump, he forgot to count "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand" before pulling his cord, instead murmuring, "Fired photographer jumps." "I felt a jerk on my shoulder and my chute was open. --Peggy Moorman. "During the day in the streets we were kissed by hundreds of old women. Robert Capa, the great photojournalist who is perhaps best known for his searing images of WWII, infused his autobiography with the same brio and warmth that he expressed in h
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. 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. His photographs are masterpieces -- John G. Charming and profound, Slightly Out of Focus is a marvelous memoir told in words and pictures by an extraordinary man. In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a he
"loved it" according to A. Dousset. i saved this book to read on the plane, since it's pretty slim. it's praised more for the famous pictures, i think, than the text. i liked it a lot. it's the story of a really interesting time and place, and he doesn't want to let the reader down by making anything sound boring. some passages are dated or awkward, but mostly he reminds me of a character in an i.b. singer book: an adventurer and also a bit of a [].he talks abou. To this day he is still regarded as the best war photographer of all times Capa would have turned 100 last year and this is his only book! he died in Indochine (195To this day he is still regarded as the best war photographer of all times Rod DeFrance Capa would have turned 100 last year and this is his only book! he died in Indochine (1954) after stepping on a landmine - he was covering the war! To this day he is still regarded as the best war photographer of all times! He covered politics in Germany, Trotsky in Finland, the Spanish Civil War (where he lost his dear love Gerda Taro - writer/photographer killed by a War Tank that ran over her) and WWII!This autobiographical. ) after stepping on a landmine - he was covering the war! To this day he is still regarded as the best war photographer of all times! He covered politics in Germany, Trotsky in Finland, the Spanish Civil War (where he lost his dear love Gerda Taro - writer/photographer killed by a War Tank that ran over her) and WWII!This autobiographical. An insight into how Capa saw his own life It has been written that Capa intended the work as a film script, and it reads that waybut then, Capa never pretended to be a reporter, the work is his version of what happened, and if aspects are embellished, that's the way he intended it, most biographers state he was fairly lose with the truth and was prone to embellishing aspects of his work.