June 8th, 2006
“Slightly out of focus”
Posted by
Ben in
General, Photojournalism
The NPPA website has an excellent article on the 62nd anniversary of D-Day, concentrating on the life and death of Robert Capa and his coverage of the historic event. It includes some interesting recollections from Dirck Halstead, now editor of The Digital Journalist, who was present at Capa’s funeral in 1954.
‘Capa has said that he remembered feeling “a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face.” He later said it that it was with great difficulty and trembling hands that he reloaded his cameras. He wrote that during it all, he kept repeating a sentence that he had picked up during the Spanish Civil War: “Es una cosa muy seria” (“This is a very serious business”).’
