Robert capa a biography by richard whelan

For the first 77 pages of this book I was convinced Endre Ernő Friedmann was a sloth, an idiot and a bumbling fool who took advantage of anyone he came into contact with and left little more than destruction and ambivalence in his wake.

For the next 50 pages I was convinced he had hoodwinked the journalistic world using any sort of duplicitous artifice he could manage to further his agenda. I am almost certain his Falling Soldier image was staged and entirely fake.

The legendary war photographer Robert Capa carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures.

Robert Capa: a biography / Richard Whelan.

The legendary war photographer Robert Capa carried into his personal life the same remarkable vitality that characterizes his pictures.

Robert Capa: A Biography.

Robert Capa.

There is little doubt in my mind of that. Just the idea that he created a fictitious person, Robert Capa, which he later became, to further his agenda lends at least some credence to this being true.

But it was at this point that I began to like Robert Capa.

Just as it seemed he did in real life to just about everyone in his life he seemed to do to me just hearing about him. I was seduced by his charm and his genuine sense of concern for enjoying life and doing whatever it t