Robert Capa
Robert Capa (born Friedmann Endre Ernő;
October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Jewish-Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His action photographs, such as those taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion, uniquely portray the violence of war. In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris with David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Jewish-Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His action photographs, such as those taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion, uniquely portray the violence of war. In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris with David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Capa was of the opinon that if your photos weren't good enough, you weren't close enough. This transpired in his work. One of his most famous photographs The Falling Soldier was famed for its alternative portrayal of the Spanish Civil War, showing the brutality of it.
John Loengard
A former LIFE photographer, Loengard interests lie in pictures that don't revela their form but the texture and shape that could be interpreted as something else altogether.
In his picture of The Ranchers Hands, Loengard chooses to focus on this particular area of the hands to tell a story. The broken nail, the weathered skin and the delicate way in which the rancher holds the rope tells the viewer more about his personality than any wide shot of the whole person would ever do.