I took a lot of train shots passing thru wonderful Austria and few thanks to blur and glare where any good. I did like this one of the little chapel high in the snow bound hills near Innsbruck. Seemed like out a dream. Early rains helped decorate these famous mountains with enough white to make the journey truely memorable
"When we (the reporters) moved closer to the village we saw the first people running. I thought 'Oh my God' when I suddenly saw a woman with her left leg badly burned by napalm. Then came a woman carrying a baby, who died, then another woman carrying a small child with it's skin coming off. When I took a picture of them I heard a child screaming and saw that young girl who had pulled off all her burning clothes. She yelled to her brother on her left. Just before the napalm was dropped soldiers (of the South Vietnamese Army) had yelled to the children to run but there wasn't enough time."
"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough."
“war photographer’s most fervent wish is for unemployment"
On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War.
But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933.
He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war.
After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge.
In 1947 Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm post-humously. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit.
``Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.''
-- Wassily Kandinsky, 1911
An exhibition of photographs taken by Helena Christensen documenting the threats of climate change on people living in Peru has opened in London. The photographs premiered at the United Nations in New York when the UN General Assembly met in September and are on a global tour heading to Copenhagen for the UN climate negotiations next month. [BBC]
As President Obama's administration prepares to finalize details on closing the controversial prison, photographer John Moore catches a rare glimpse of the life for detainees and guards behind the wire. (Photographs by John Moore / Getty)
Health officials around the world are stepping up vaccination efforts and are closely tracking the progress of the H1N1/09 virus (often referred to as "swine flu" in the media). World Health Organization officials recently noted that the virus has spread to virtually every country in the world, reaching as far as remote tribes in Venezuela and aboriginal populations in Australia. Although the number of deaths attributed to H1N1 this year (over 7,000 to date) remains low compared to a normal seasonal flu outbreak of several hundred thousand deaths in a year, health officials remain concerned because of the instability of H1N1/09 combined with its tendency to affect younger healthier people. Collected here are photos of people around the world preparing for and dealing with the current H1N1 pandemic. [The Big Picture]
2003, Baghdad, Iraq
"One morning, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I got my driver to take me to an affluent suburb of central Baghdad. The rumour was that there had been a meeting of senior Iraqi military in one of the houses and so it had been hit the night before … When I arrived, I tried to hang back, hoping someone would appear. Then suddenly a kid, who I had seen around before, came back. This time he was carrying a rabbit."
Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian
"100 years of great press photographs"
La Nasa a annoncé avoir détecté de grandes quantités d'eau gelée dans un cratère au pôle sud de notre satellite. Une découverte scientifique majeure. [Le Figaro]
“Basically I said two things to him,” (...) “No. 1‚ I said, ‘I want you to be careful all the time and trust your instincts.’ No. 2, I said‚ ‘If you’re going down, give ’em hell. Fire till your last breath.’ At that point he squeezed me‚ like‚ ‘I understand,’ you know. And we didn’t say anything else.”
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