Dispatches from War

LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER ROBERT CAPA CHANGED THE WAY WE LOOK AT AND CHRONICLE CONFLICT

- Ruchir Joshi

A young woman and man decide to start working together in Paris in the early 1930s. Both are Jewish-she's German, he's Hungarian-both are leftists, and they begin to explore the possibilities of using photographs and writing in tandem to report on the momentous events unfolding around them. They decide that their names, Gerta Pohorylle and Endre Friedmann, are too cumbersome and they arrive at a pen name-they decide to call themselves 'Robert Capa', with Gerta, now calling herself 'Gerda Taro', representing 'Capa' as an agent when selling their work to the newly launched picture magazines.

ROBERT CAPA'S pictures were the first ones that turned blurred photographs into valid recordings of a time