{"id":2728,"date":"2013-08-23T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2013-08-21T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:10:37","slug":"capa-and-leica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=2728","title":{"rendered":"Capa and Leica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to dvaphoto<\/a> for pointing out the great advert for the launch of the Leica Monochrom-M<\/a> at the at the Sao Paulo Leica store, which is based on vignettes of the life of Robert Capa and some of his best-known images.<\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with his work, it might be worth looking at a set of his pictures on Magnum<\/a> before you view the video, and reading the profile on that page.<\/p>\n

Capa really isn’t a great advert for Leica, although it’s true that his career started with a Leica II <\/a>put in his hands by Simon Guttman<\/em> who sent him to photograph Trotsky speaking in Denmark in 1932. But Capa fairly soon abandoned Leica for Contax (and sometimes Rolleiflex.)\u00a0 I don’t think he used a Leica after he came back from Spain. All of his well-known World War II pictures were taken on a Contax II. When he died in Indochina he was using a Contax IIa and a Nikon S rangefinder.<\/p>\n

Who knows what he would have thought of the M Monochrom, though it’s certainly a camera capable of fine black and white results.<\/a> But were he still alive and working today – at the age of 100 – I rather doubt if he would be using Leica!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to dvaphoto for pointing out the great advert for the launch of the Leica Monochrom-M at the at the Sao Paulo Leica store, which is based on vignettes of the life of Robert Capa and some of his best-known images. If you are not familiar with his work, it might be worth looking at … Continue reading Capa and Leica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}