photographs by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, captions by Robert Capa, translated by Jay Allen, preface by Jay Allen. Arrangement by André Kertész.
New York, Covici-Friede, 1938
With the scarce dust-jacket featuring Capa's photograph which purportedly shows a Republican soldier at the moment of his death. In the summer of 1936, Robert Capa made the first of several trips to Spain to cover the civil war that had recently broken out there. He was accompanied by Gerda Taro, the two were lovers. Taro was a talented young photographer who was probably the first woman to photograph on the front line, she was also the first to be killed in the course of her work when she was accidentally crushed by a tank near Brunette in July 1937. In many ways this book is her memorial, it features many of her photographs alongside Capa's, and Capa eloquently dedicates the book to her: For Gerda Taro, who spent one year at the Spanish Front, and who stayed on. R.C. Madrid, December, 1937.
The layout of Death in the Making is by André Kertész, Capa's friend, mentor, and fellow Hungarian. Shortly after he arrived in Paris in the spring of 1934, whilst living in near poverty, Capa met Kertész, who loaned him money, found him work, and taught him about photography. It was also in Paris at around this time that Capa met Henri Cartier-Bresson and David 'Chim' Szymin (Seymour), two of his future Magnum co-founders.
First edition; 4to (279 x 212 mm, 11 x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, minor toning to pages, endemic toning to endpapers at gutter; olive cloth-covered boards, spine and front printed in black, spotting along joints, toning to spine, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, several short tear with light wear, chips to head, foot, and lower portion of spine, split to foot of front spine-fold a very good copy; [96]pp.
Regards 92; Fotografia Publica p76; The Photobook: A History Vol I p139; Auer 266; Guerra Grafica Espagne p252; Magnum Photobook pp18-9.
The layout of Death in the Making is by André Kertész, Capa's friend, mentor, and fellow Hungarian. Shortly after he arrived in Paris in the spring of 1934, whilst living in near poverty, Capa met Kertész, who loaned him money, found him work, and taught him about photography. It was also in Paris at around this time that Capa met Henri Cartier-Bresson and David 'Chim' Szymin (Seymour), two of his future Magnum co-founders.
First edition; 4to (279 x 212 mm, 11 x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, minor toning to pages, endemic toning to endpapers at gutter; olive cloth-covered boards, spine and front printed in black, spotting along joints, toning to spine, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, several short tear with light wear, chips to head, foot, and lower portion of spine, split to foot of front spine-fold a very good copy; [96]pp.
Regards 92; Fotografia Publica p76; The Photobook: A History Vol I p139; Auer 266; Guerra Grafica Espagne p252; Magnum Photobook pp18-9.
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