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Click here to read an 1862 review about the Civil War photographs of Mathew Brady.
| Joe Rosenthal on Iwo Jima (Collier's Magazine, 1955) Associated Press combat photographer Joe Rosenthal (1911 – 2006) wrote the attached article ten years after snapping the world famous image of the four U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi (see above) during the battle of Iwo Jima. In five pages, he explains the remarkable impact that the photo had on the American psyche as well as the popular culture on the American home front, both during the war and afterward. Rosenthal was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for capturing on film one of the greatest events of W.W. II and briefly explains that the three surviving men who participated in the event were thrust into fame for years afterward. Slim Aarons at Monte Cassino (Yank Magazine, 1944)Photographer Slim Aarons (1916 - 2006) is remembered for chronicling the swells of Palm Beach and Newport during the 1960s for 'Town and Country', among other magazines, but before he was able to have those villa doors open for him he had to first pay his dues at YANK MAGAZINE, photographing the dung and destruction of World War Two. This is an article he wrote about all that he saw during the Battle of Monte Cassino (January 17, 1944 – May 19, 1944), accompanied by five of his photographs. Captain Edward Steichen of the U.S. Navy (Collier's Magazine, 1945)As informative as this World War Two article about Edward Steichen (1879 – 1973) is, it fails to convey to the reader what an interesting soul he must have been. Steichen was a respected photographer in modernist circles prior to volunteering for service in the First World War, and by the time he joined the U.S. Navy for the second go-round, his stock was even higher. Much admired by museum directors, taste-makers and magazine publishers Steichen was the highest paid photographer in the world during the inter-war years. Recognizing that they had caught a big fish, the Navy bestowed upon him a senior rank, making him Director of the Naval Photographic Institute. No study of World War II art is complete without mentioning Edward Steichen and his efforts with the U.S. Navy.
••Edward Steichen Was Awarded an Oscar for this 1945 Documentary•• Robert Capa: Slightly Out of Focus ('47 Magazine)The attached article was written by John Hersey (1914 – 1993); it was written as a review of Slightly Out of Focus , the memoir by the most famous of World War II combat photographers, Robert Capa (né Andre Friedmann: 1913 – 1954). A fun and informative read, you will learn how the man came to be a photographer, how he acquired his nom de plume, his work during the Spanish Civil War and the credibility that quickly followed.
Click here to read what General James Gavin remembered about photographer Robert Capa.
Click here to read what the writer Irwin Shaw had to say about Robert Capa.
Click here if you care to read what the scribe William Saroyan remembered about his days with Capa. | | |
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