Excellent report, sir. At 77 years old, and as a former photographer/journalist Capa has been a light with which to see a dangerous path. Also, I do not believe the photo was not staged. The face tells a story of death. Thank you.
Sorry ... "the face tells a story of death"? Take a magnifying glass and analyse the face of the falling soldier! You'll have some surprise! ... I can see almost a smile! Look exactly and a long time the face of the falling man!
Excellent video. Capa was a great photo journalist and a very brave man. His work is impressive and has stood the test of time because it is timeless. Thank you for making this!
Very well done. I am a big Capa fan. I have read several books on him, and I liked this short very much. Great job on the "Greatest War Photographer in the World"!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it. What is the book you liked most? For me its probably Slightly out of focus. It kinda feels like you are there with him.
While I did read and liked "Slightly out of focus", I would have to say my favorite is "Blood and Champagne" by Alex Kershaw. He really researched him well, worked on that book for years. Anyways, the first book I read on Capa was "Waiting for Robert Capa: A Novel". by Susana Fortes. Must say I read that book in a day or two (barely 200 pages),maybe because of the great combination of history and Capa, which I like both.
It would seem that the term "research" can be used rather broadly since this consists merely of some rehashing of what other people have researched and written and leaves out the debunking of the "ruined negatives" myth and the fact that the dying soldier is proven to be staged beyond reasonable doubt.
I recently found this channel and it has got to be one of the most informative photography channels on youtube. My only negative comment has to do with the production quality. Setting that aside, though, the content and research you put in to all of your videos is truly extraordinary. Congratulations!!
Thank you for your comment. I am constantly working on getting better my editting skills. Do you have any suggestions what I should improve? Otherwise thank you a lot 🙂
In my humble opinion the green screen with you right in the middle doesn’t do justice to the amount of information you get by watching your videos. Excited to see how you’ll progress over time with your editing skills, I’m sure you’ll do great!! See you in the next video
@@lucarondon Thank you I will have that in mind! Its mostly used so I have more freedom to put anything on the background but its also very convinient since I didnt really have a good place to shoot (I shot first few videos in my room) and this is just a fast way to get a scene for making the video 😊
@@aboutphotography I myself like to see content while listening to the speaker. I’m constantly preferring content over style. Honestly I am more fed up with all the UA-camrs, who try branding their person. Consider that please …
@@aboutphotography I enjoyed this production so much in fact, that by watching it over and over, I discover and learn new qualities not only about the artist, the history and times that he navigated, but on his legacy as well. Thank you, and do keep up the good work. Well done!
@@aboutphotography what's more, I share the knowledge that you offer, by forwarding, and posting this clip. The world is definitely richer for having it.
Bob Capa was a marvellous photojournalist. The British photojournalist, George Rodger, from the same epoch, was also really outstanding and his travels and imaged read like a wild adventure. Unfortunately, he never really received the accolades, recognition, or legendary status of Capa.
+hernan Vazquez Hi! Thank you! I am gld you liked it! I will try it next time I do a video. The thing with the jump cuts is I think it kind of saves time to views since the video is shorter. But thank you for your comment!
*photographers. Gerta and her husband were both Robert Capa, as they both used this nickname, TOGETHER. Please reconsider this research, as that woman did lost her life, as well as her husband
Thank you I hope it was not annoying to you 😊. I like the green screen and what you can do with from cinematic aspect but this is one of the few backgrounds I was satisfied with hmm. Thank you for your comment! I am glad you liked it!
Good video again. Can try to suggest something? Try to move out of the centre of the video, either to the left or right. So be rather on the edge of two thirds. I think it will look better for composition and also when you are presenting the videos or pictures behind yourself they will be more visible.
+PetR Things I Like Thank you! That is something I will definitely try. With the green screen its also easier to do it aince it can be done in the postproduction. Thank you for suggestions I am glad you liked the video!
Your absolutely right. What is more is Capra's was largely a fraud. His "falling soldier" has now been proved to been 30 miles away from the front lines and completely staged beyond any doubt. The man just told lies that puts his D-Day explanation right out the window; when he was verified at an actually very dangerous situation, near all the photos failed and as he is a quite ready to lie without compunction, his claims there are a crap shoot too, once his pedigree has been ascertained too; you know like, "Maybe it's true". A lie is NOT news, its a dog in the fight, and why ulterior opinions are often wiped off or bagged like your the one who speaks absolute guff for holding a guy to account. It was a huge disappointment to me also, and why I'm a little peeved. At first on his side, but eventually I had to admit the people that lit him up were dead right. Does the media ever tell the truth? who are these media people anyway, as when i dig into many media rants, they prove to be outright propaganda by an agency that wants to manipulate people with hogwash that appeals via emotional sensationalism to bypass the rational faculties straight sadness anger or despair, and the world, no matter what we do just gets worse as the lies becomes news worthy 80% of the and counter narratives not even fielded as the hero worship, I once stood by and the ubiquitous love here of a fraud demonstrates. You just won't be told the truth period, and some folks just can't part with their false conceptions in love with their own reflections. The media can't be trusted and that is a fact. I have even taken a second look the Russian conflict and found gaffed dice there too. Now watch their other kind of poo they throw now come out of the septic Arsenal, as your not even allowed to disagree anymore and the more of a lie it is the bigger the mocking assault.
This is a very well done and touching tribute. However, recent research has unveiled much new evidence that changes the story. As for the Falling soldier, it becomes far less impressive when you see the second photo Capa took of a second soldier posed in the same 'death fall' at the exact same place and taken just moments apart. (The first corpse had gotten up and walked away.) Vue magazine printed both photos, from which intelligent readers could realize the story should not be taken at face value. Unfortunately, when the story was later printed in the US, the duplicate photo was quietly omitted, and the deception was cemented in the public's mind. Ten years ago the point where those photos were taken was geolocated. It was far behind the lines at the time the photos were taken. There was no combat in that area for more than a month afterwards. The photos on those rolls of film were simply staged fakes for propaganda. Capa was 22 when he sold those fakes, very early in his career. Eleven years later he gave an interview in which he invented new and even more outlandish details about the event that never was. It would be wise to be more cautious when considering the claims he made about other photos in the intervening years. Capa was not the first photographer to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. That honor goes to SGT Taylor and another man of the 165th Signal Photo company. Life's editors made up that fiction for the 19 June 1944, a bit of marketing hype, nothing more. His D+3 interview with Charles Wertenbaker made no such claim. Capa only adopted the first wave myth after the 19 June issue came out and the public believed the nonsense Life invented. Capa actually landed back in Wave 13, and despite his gory description, he landed at a point in time where German fire was the lightest. Everyone in his wave reached the shelter of the shingle bank safely. He got no farther than the tank seen to left of his photos; he quickly left the beach and was on another landing craft within 15 minutes. Life only printed 5 of his 10 beach photos in the 19 June issue. The other five they printed were taken after he left the beach, and with a different camera using 120 film. The four 35mm rolls of film he shot included three that were exposed aboard his attack transport before D-Day. He only shot part of one roll of 35mm film on D-Day. His first shot from the bow of the landing craft was exposure 29 out of a roll of 36 (he actually squeezed two more shots out of that roll). None of the film was lost by an accident in the lab. Tests have shown that the film could not be ruined in the manner claimed, and even the man who told that story for 70 years (John Morris, the head of the Life picture office in London, and the guy who owned the lab) finally had to admit the lab accident story could not be true, and ended up saying that apparently Capa only took those few photos on the beach. By the way, everyone calls them the Magnificent 11, but there has never been any proof there was more than 10. Those 10 are not the only film he shot that day. He exposed five rolls of 120 from the time he stepped back aboard a landing craft till the end of the day, and about half of those can still be found in the archives. There's so much more, but there isn't space here. Unfortunately, the mythology surrounding this has become so pervasive that it's taken on a life of its own. Your video was very well produced, and I regret that so much of it has been undermined by subsequent disclosures.
A tragic end for her, Gerda Taro, and for him! I have my doubts too about Capa's picture "falling soldier"! If you look precisely with a magnifying glass the face of the falling soldier you'll see almost a (souspicious?) smile! And tell me: where is the soldier's wound? I would say on this photograph there are some ''strange'' elements! Where is the impact of the bullet? How could Capa have foreseen the tragic death of this man? Besides, alone in the photo and on the battle field! No other soldiers around him, not like in the photos of the Normandy landings! I don't know : it's 'curious' and 'strange'! And in full action the image ist so clear and distinct! Look his photos of Normandy Beach! No ... Capa was young, he believed in his career! He cheated a little ... let's say for a good cause. Against hate, violence and war!
Thank you! I was thinking about it but I have not looked more into it. But it is on my wider list so I think I will do it sooner or later :) thank you for suggestion!
i heard the song ‘Taro’ by alt-j and became super interested in Capa’s life, this was perfect to watch :))
Oh I will have to check that out! Glad you like the video :)
You have a wonderful way to tell a story about the people I admire. Thank you
Excellent report, sir. At 77 years old, and as a former photographer/journalist Capa has been a light with which to see a dangerous path. Also, I do not believe the photo was not staged. The face tells a story of death. Thank you.
Thank you very much! I am happy you enjoyed it!
Sorry ... "the face tells a story of death"? Take a magnifying glass and analyse the face of the falling soldier! You'll have some surprise! ... I can see almost a smile! Look exactly and a long time the face of the falling man!
Just wonderful! I love Magnum and their photographers. Very nice.
Thank you!
Excellent video. Capa was a great photo journalist and a very brave man. His work is impressive and has stood the test of time because it is timeless. Thank you for making this!
Pleasant Valley Picker CA thank you! I am glad you liked it!
Thank you for this fantastic video on a great photographer! Really enjoyed the narration.
Glad you enjoyed it! See you around!
Very well done. I am a big Capa fan. I have read several books on him, and I liked this short very much. Great job on the "Greatest War Photographer in the World"!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it. What is the book you liked most? For me its probably Slightly out of focus. It kinda feels like you are there with him.
While I did read and liked "Slightly out of focus", I would have to say my favorite is "Blood and Champagne" by Alex Kershaw. He really researched him well, worked on that book for years. Anyways, the first book I read on Capa was "Waiting for Robert Capa: A Novel". by Susana Fortes. Must say I read that book in a day or two (barely 200 pages),maybe because of the great combination of history and Capa, which I like both.
I found that book while researching him but I did not read it. I will check it out!
Incredible! Thank you, looking forward next videos!
😊🙏 thank you!
Thank you so much.
Thank you! I am happy you liked it!
Beautifully done. I enjoyed your video Martin
Thank you!
Lovely video with an incredible story. Well done!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it!
your english is awesome dude, and also, great video
Outstanding work! And well researched!
question for you: did Capa study at university in Germany?
Thank you, happy you liked it! I am not sure about that
It would seem that the term "research" can be used rather broadly since this consists merely of some rehashing of what other people have researched and written and leaves out the debunking of the "ruined negatives" myth and the fact that the dying soldier is proven to be staged beyond reasonable doubt.
I recently found this channel and it has got to be one of the most informative photography channels on youtube. My only negative comment has to do with the production quality. Setting that aside, though, the content and research you put in to all of your videos is truly extraordinary. Congratulations!!
Thank you for your comment. I am constantly working on getting better my editting skills. Do you have any suggestions what I should improve? Otherwise thank you a lot 🙂
In my humble opinion the green screen with you right in the middle doesn’t do justice to the amount of information you get by watching your videos. Excited to see how you’ll progress over time with your editing skills, I’m sure you’ll do great!! See you in the next video
@@lucarondon Thank you I will have that in mind! Its mostly used so I have more freedom to put anything on the background but its also very convinient since I didnt really have a good place to shoot (I shot first few videos in my room) and this is just a fast way to get a scene for making the video 😊
@@aboutphotography I myself like to see content while listening to the speaker. I’m constantly preferring content over style. Honestly I am more fed up with all the UA-camrs, who try branding their person. Consider that please …
It is a great channel. Just turn the music down a little bit. I can´t hear you well@@aboutphotography
the great person of our history
Yeah!
Very informative, thanks.
Thank you!
Great video, keep them coming. Appreciate your hard work.
Thank you! I Appreciate you wrote a comment! I will resume posting again next week
Here's a link to some my street shots 500px.com/w0seven do you have one yourself?
Very well made.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it!
Wonderful content, thank you.
Thank you! I am happy you liked it!
@@aboutphotography I enjoyed this production so much in fact, that by watching it over and over, I discover and learn new qualities not only about the artist, the history and times that he navigated, but on his legacy as well. Thank you, and do keep up the good work. Well done!
Thank you once again! You are very kind!
@@aboutphotography what's more, I share the knowledge that you offer, by forwarding, and posting this clip. The world is definitely richer for having it.
Nice work. Thanks for telling us about this amazing guy - and Gerta Taro, who was equally amazing if not more so.
Couldn't agree more!
Bob Capa was a marvellous photojournalist. The British photojournalist, George Rodger, from the same epoch, was also really outstanding and his travels and imaged read like a wild adventure.
Unfortunately, he never really received the accolades, recognition, or legendary status of Capa.
Thank you for this and all the videos you put together. I would only ask that you use dissolves instead of so many jump cuts. Thanks!
+hernan Vazquez Hi! Thank you! I am gld you liked it! I will try it next time I do a video. The thing with the jump cuts is I think it kind of saves time to views since the video is shorter. But thank you for your comment!
*photographers. Gerta and her husband were both Robert Capa, as they both used this nickname, TOGETHER. Please reconsider this research, as that woman did lost her life, as well as her husband
Capa did some real good photos. Maybe you should review David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018) too.
Thank you for suggestion. I will definitely check it out!
A great mini biopic on Capa. Could've done without the greenscreened blurry bookshelf backdrop, but otherwise well done.
Thank you I hope it was not annoying to you 😊. I like the green screen and what you can do with from cinematic aspect but this is one of the few backgrounds I was satisfied with hmm. Thank you for your comment! I am glad you liked it!
Good video again. Can try to suggest something? Try to move out of the centre of the video, either to the left or right. So be rather on the edge of two thirds. I think it will look better for composition and also when you are presenting the videos or pictures behind yourself they will be more visible.
+PetR Things I Like Thank you! That is something I will definitely try. With the green screen its also easier to do it aince it can be done in the postproduction. Thank you for suggestions I am glad you liked the video!
Hello would like to know if this photographer created the term generation x and did he create this generation x for all countries
Gerta Taro was the real Robert Capa. Look it up.
Your absolutely right. What is more is Capra's was largely a fraud. His "falling soldier" has now been proved to been 30 miles away from the front lines and completely staged beyond any doubt.
The man just told lies that puts his D-Day explanation right out the window; when he was verified at an actually very dangerous situation, near all the photos failed and as he is a quite ready to lie without compunction, his claims there are a crap shoot too, once his pedigree has been ascertained too; you know like, "Maybe it's true".
A lie is NOT news, its a dog in the fight, and why ulterior opinions are often wiped off or bagged like your the one who speaks absolute guff for holding a guy to account.
It was a huge disappointment to me also, and why I'm a little peeved.
At first on his side, but eventually I had to admit the people that lit him up were dead right.
Does the media ever tell the truth? who are these media people anyway, as when i dig into many media rants, they prove to be outright propaganda by an agency that wants to manipulate people with hogwash that appeals via emotional sensationalism to bypass the rational faculties straight sadness anger or despair, and the world, no matter what we do just gets worse as the lies becomes news worthy 80% of the and counter narratives not even fielded as the hero worship, I once stood by and the ubiquitous love here of a fraud demonstrates. You just won't be told the truth period, and some folks just can't part with their false conceptions in love with their own reflections.
The media can't be trusted and that is a fact. I have even taken a second look the Russian conflict and found gaffed dice there too. Now watch their other kind of poo they throw now come out of the septic Arsenal, as your not even allowed to disagree anymore and the more of a lie it is the bigger the mocking assault.
This is a very well done and touching tribute. However, recent research has unveiled much new evidence that changes the story.
As for the Falling soldier, it becomes far less impressive when you see the second photo Capa took of a second soldier posed in the same 'death fall' at the exact same place and taken just moments apart. (The first corpse had gotten up and walked away.) Vue magazine printed both photos, from which intelligent readers could realize the story should not be taken at face value. Unfortunately, when the story was later printed in the US, the duplicate photo was quietly omitted, and the deception was cemented in the public's mind. Ten years ago the point where those photos were taken was geolocated. It was far behind the lines at the time the photos were taken. There was no combat in that area for more than a month afterwards. The photos on those rolls of film were simply staged fakes for propaganda. Capa was 22 when he sold those fakes, very early in his career. Eleven years later he gave an interview in which he invented new and even more outlandish details about the event that never was. It would be wise to be more cautious when considering the claims he made about other photos in the intervening years.
Capa was not the first photographer to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. That honor goes to SGT Taylor and another man of the 165th Signal Photo company. Life's editors made up that fiction for the 19 June 1944, a bit of marketing hype, nothing more. His D+3 interview with Charles Wertenbaker made no such claim. Capa only adopted the first wave myth after the 19 June issue came out and the public believed the nonsense Life invented. Capa actually landed back in Wave 13, and despite his gory description, he landed at a point in time where German fire was the lightest. Everyone in his wave reached the shelter of the shingle bank safely. He got no farther than the tank seen to left of his photos; he quickly left the beach and was on another landing craft within 15 minutes. Life only printed 5 of his 10 beach photos in the 19 June issue. The other five they printed were taken after he left the beach, and with a different camera using 120 film.
The four 35mm rolls of film he shot included three that were exposed aboard his attack transport before D-Day. He only shot part of one roll of 35mm film on D-Day. His first shot from the bow of the landing craft was exposure 29 out of a roll of 36 (he actually squeezed two more shots out of that roll). None of the film was lost by an accident in the lab. Tests have shown that the film could not be ruined in the manner claimed, and even the man who told that story for 70 years (John Morris, the head of the Life picture office in London, and the guy who owned the lab) finally had to admit the lab accident story could not be true, and ended up saying that apparently Capa only took those few photos on the beach. By the way, everyone calls them the Magnificent 11, but there has never been any proof there was more than 10. Those 10 are not the only film he shot that day. He exposed five rolls of 120 from the time he stepped back aboard a landing craft till the end of the day, and about half of those can still be found in the archives.
There's so much more, but there isn't space here. Unfortunately, the mythology surrounding this has become so pervasive that it's taken on a life of its own. Your video was very well produced, and I regret that so much of it has been undermined by subsequent disclosures.
A tragic end for her, Gerda Taro, and for him! I have my doubts too about Capa's picture "falling soldier"! If you look precisely with a magnifying glass the face of the falling soldier you'll see almost a (souspicious?) smile! And tell me: where is the soldier's wound? I would say on this photograph there are some ''strange'' elements! Where is the impact of the bullet? How could Capa have foreseen the tragic death of this man? Besides, alone in the photo and on the battle field! No other soldiers around him, not like in the photos of the Normandy landings! I don't know : it's 'curious' and 'strange'! And in full action the image ist so clear and distinct! Look his photos of Normandy Beach! No ... Capa was young, he believed in his career! He cheated a little ... let's say for a good cause. Against hate, violence and war!
You can find this content and more on aboutphotography.blog
I am about to dive in. Thanx.
It should be mentioned that he was jewish
Not everything could fit there. But why do you think it is that important?
Great thanks , could you do something on his friends Eva Besnyo and Gerda Taro
Thank you! I was thinking about it but I have not looked more into it. But it is on my wider list so I think I will do it sooner or later :) thank you for suggestion!