Last night I got to see a 2003 documentary about the famous photographer Robert Capa, titled Robert Capa: In Love and War. It's a very good exploration of the life of this formidable man, that I knew next to nothing about prior to this. Maybe a bit partial, but then you can't cover a whole life in 90 minutes, least of all such a complex life as Capa's.
The documentary was shown at the Peña Fotográfica Rosarina, and I learned of it through a friend of Marisa's who's a photographer. It was free of charge and anybody could attend, but I felt a bit out of place as I entered the building on Urquiza St. The folks at the Peña are mostly pros or trying to be, and generally they're on the traditional film or the newer digital reflex camp, so they don't commonly mix with us lowly non-reflex users. (I have a bridge camera now, and a couple of my own fellow Rosarigasinos have DSLRs, but still there's an invisible line between us and the Peña's guys.)
Anyway, the environment was friendly enough, and the movie was very nicely done. If you can get it somehow, do yourself a favour and watch it.
13 March 2008
For the photographers: Robert Capa
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Pablo - the documentary you saw was produced for PBS (Public Broadcasting Service in the US). The home page for the documentary is:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html
The home page links to additional video footage and a filmmaker interview.
There was an article in the NY Times in January about the discovery of thousands of Capa's negatives that he shot during the Spanish Civil War:
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html
There is a also a German TV documentary on YouTube (with overdubbing in Spanish):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NWsYTGsno
John