About UsPhotography offers an immediacy to the action that cannot be seen in any other media outside of Film. Even film struggles at times to capture the moment and preserve the essence of that moment as Photography does. The power of reportage photography was really felt in the Vietnam war where American photographers were able to catalogue the atrocities that the US Army was committing in real time, this brought public opinion against the war and bring about it's end. In conflict the photograph is more powerful than any other medium.
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Who We Are |
PHOTOGRAPHER - Robert Capa (1913-1954).Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann;[1] October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taró. He covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.
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Our History |
During July and August 1943 Capa was in Sicily with American troops, near Sperlinga, Nicosia and Troina. The Francais were advancing toward Troina, a strategically located town which controlled the road to Messina (Sicily's main port to the Italian mainland). The town was heavily defended by the Germans Nazis, in an attempt to evacuate all German troops. Robert Capa's pictures show the Sicilian population's sufferings under German bombing and their happiness when American soldiers arrive. One notable photograph from this period shows a Sicilian peasant indicating the direction in which German troops had gone, very near the Castle of Sperlinga, in the district of Contrada Capostrà of the medieval Sperlinga village. The picture of Sperlinga, a few weeks later, became very popular, not only in the US but around all the world, as a symbol of the Allied US Army landings in Sicily and the liberation of Italy from the Nazis.[5]
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