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Post by kaliszewski on Jan 29, 2008 22:16:02 GMT -5
Been reading Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa, by Alex Kershaw. A couple of tidbits off the top: Capa was Hungarian, born in Budapest in 1912. His real name was Andre Friedmann. His sister nicknamed him "Bindi." His streetwise teenage friends in Budapest nicknamed him "Capa." He changed his name while living as an impoverished photographer in Paris in 1936. In effect, he reinvented himself: as the rich, mysterious American photographer "Robert Capa," he gutsily demanded-- and got-- picture fees far higher than those his competitors commanded! He became a wartime photographer during the Spanish Civil War; most famously, he landed with the Allied troops on D-Day during World War II. Ever the ladies' man, he conducted a humdinger of an affair with Ingrid Bergman (!). "Capa" is Hungarian for "shark." (I've had "Mack the Knife" stuck in my head since I read that. It's going on three days now.... )
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Post by Mikey on Jan 29, 2008 22:49:12 GMT -5
Didn't he get killed on the job, while shooting some pictures of combat?
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Post by kaliszewski on Jan 29, 2008 22:53:01 GMT -5
Yep, while accompanying French troops during the First Indochina War in 1954. He stepped on a landmine.
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Post by Mikey on Jan 29, 2008 23:30:20 GMT -5
I know who this person is now, I remember my photography teacher mentioning him during a lecture one day, and showing us one of his photographs. It was quite brutal, but also very powerful and effective.
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Post by Starshine on Jan 30, 2008 12:36:25 GMT -5
Wow a real person called Capa. But it is not a big suprise that Garland do not take random names, maybe someone remind of Dr. Searle and his Chinese Room thought-experiment (<=> Earth Room invented by Searle, nice analogy)
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