The Girl With The Leica
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The Girl With The Leica
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Author : Helena Janeczek
language : en
Publisher: Europa Editions
Release Date : 2019-10-08
The Girl With The Leica written by Helena Janeczek and has been published by Europa Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Fiction categories.
The life of a female war photographer killed in action is told by three of her friends in this biographical novel by the author of Bloody Cow. Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist, and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century’s greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro’s twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann leads the procession. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, with him: Ruth Cerf, Taro’s old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure being mourned by the multitudes . . . Another character in the novel is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century’s ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age’s quintessential art form. Winner of the Strega Prize, The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives. “A biography, a feminist parable, a declaration of love for photography, and a tableau of the 1930s: The Girl with the Leica is all this at once.” —Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy) “Janeczek creatively and seamlessly spotlights war photographer Gerda Pohorylle.” —Publishers Weekly
La Ragazza Con La Leica
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Author : Helena Janeczek
language : it
Publisher: Guanda
Release Date : 2017-09-07T00:00:00+02:00
La Ragazza Con La Leica written by Helena Janeczek and has been published by Guanda this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07T00:00:00+02:00 with Fiction categories.
Nel 2018 ha vinto il Premio Strega e il Premio Bagutta, ed è nella Selezione Premio Campiello 2018. «Helena è scrittrice vera, attenta alla fabula ma affascinata dalla realtà storica... Un libro bellissimo.» Roberto Saviano «Riscatta dall’oblio un volto di donna (la ragazza con la Leica): la fotografa tedesca ribelle e avventurosa, e pioniera del fotogiornalismo, Gerda Taro... Uno scintillio di passioni che il romanzo di Janeczek riesce a riprodurre perfettamente.» Vanity Fair «Helena è scrittrice vera, e questo, forse, è il suo libro più bello.» Roberto Saviano Il 1° agosto 1937 una sfilata piena di bandiere rosse attraversa Parigi. È il corteo funebre per Gerda Taro, la prima fotografa caduta su un campo di battaglia. Proprio quel giorno avrebbe compiuto ventisette anni. Robert Capa, in prima fila, è distrutto: erano stati felici insieme, lui le aveva insegnato a usare la Leica e poi erano partiti tutti e due per la Guerra di Spagna. Nella folla seguono altri che sono legati a Gerda da molto prima che diventasse la ragazza di Capa: Ruth Cerf, l’amica di Lipsia, con cui ha vissuto i tempi più duri a Parigi dopo la fuga dalla Germania; Willy Chardack, che si è accontentato del ruolo di cavalier servente da quando l’irresistibile ragazza gli ha preferito Georg Kuritzkes, impegnato a combattere nelle Brigate Internazionali. Per tutti Gerda rimarrà una presenza più forte e viva della celebrata eroina antifascista: Gerda li ha spesso delusi e feriti, ma la sua gioia di vivere, la sua sete di libertà sono scintille capaci di riaccendersi anche a distanza di decenni. Basta una telefonata intercontinentale tra Willy e Georg, che si sentono per tutt’altro motivo, a dare l’avvio a un romanzo caleidoscopico, costruito sulle fonti originali, del quale Gerda è il cuore pulsante. È il suo battito a tenere insieme un flusso che allaccia epoche e luoghi lontani, restituendo vita alle istantanee di questi ragazzi degli anni Trenta alle prese con la crisi economica, l’ascesa del nazismo, l’ostilità verso i rifugiati che in Francia colpiva soprattutto chi era ebreo e di sinistra, come loro. Ma per chi l’ha amata, quella giovinezza resta il tempo in cui, finché Gerda è vissuta, tutto sembrava ancora possibile.
Leica Accessory Guide
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Author : Dennis Laney
language : en
Publisher: Hove Books
Release Date : 1996
Leica Accessory Guide written by Dennis Laney and has been published by Hove Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Photography categories.
This book is used in conjunction with The Leica Pocket Book and Leica Price Guide and has been compiled from original Leitz sources. The book has two aims: the first is to act as the constant pocket companion for the Leica Collector in his travels; the second is to help Leica enthusiasts who want to study fascinating accessories in greater depth. It covers the whole period from 1924 to Spring 1996 and will enable the reader to place an individual accessory in its historical context with contemporary Leica models and lenses. Readers wishing to study Leica accessories further and looking for a more suitable bedside companion are referred to the author’s Leica Collectors Guide which also includes comprehensive accounts of Leitz enlargers, projectors and binoculars.
The Swallows Of Monte Cassino
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Author : Frederika Randall
language : en
Publisher: New Acdemia+ORM
Release Date : 2013-10-14
The Swallows Of Monte Cassino written by Frederika Randall and has been published by New Acdemia+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with Fiction categories.
The Strega Prize–winning author of The Girl with a Leica delivers a novel that hinges on one of the bloodiest World War II battles and those who fought it. In this highly original novel, Janeczek retells the four-month-long Battle of Monte Cassino from the point of view of the Maori, Gurkha, Polish, North African, small-town American and other Allied foot soldiers who fought and died under German fire near that 6th century Benedictine abbey. Twined through the battle is another story, a memory of the drowned and the saved in Janeczek’s own family in wartime Eastern Europe, where Jews who did not go to Nazi death camps went to Soviet gulag camps, and sometimes survived, and even went on to fight at Monte Cassino. A powerful reflection on all the ways that rights can be taken from us. “Helena Janeczek’s novel is this: a tattoo etched on the skin, and not painlessly. A vast design that brings together threads from all the various lives that converged in that legendary battle. The beauty of her tale lies in its structure, the way opposites converge: the chaos of battle and the silence of the defeated, ordinariness and the heroism of the powerless, carefully guarded memory and impetuous youth, the past perpetually intertwined with the present.” —Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah
Think Like A Street Photographer
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Author : Derren Brown
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-06-08
Think Like A Street Photographer written by Derren Brown and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-08 with Photography categories.
'Never does that old maxim "the harder I practice, the luckier I get" ring truer.' - Matt Stuart Street photography may look like luck, but you have to get out there and hone your craft if you want to shake up those luck vibes. Matt Stuart never goes out without his trusty Leica and, in a career spanning twenty years, has taken some of the most accomplished, witty and well-known photographs of the streets. From understanding how to be invisible on a busy street, to anticipating a great image in the chaos of a crowd, Matt Stuart reveals in over 20 chapters the hard-won skills and secrets that have led to his greatest shots. He explains his purist and uniquely playful approach to street photography leaving the reader full of ideas to use in their own photography. Illustrated throughout with 100 of Stuart's images, this is a unique opportunity to learn from one of the finest street photographers around.
Drivebys
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Author : Brian Bowen Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-19
Drivebys written by Brian Bowen Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-19 with categories.
Gerda Taro
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Author : Jane Rogoyska
language : en
Publisher: Random House UK
Release Date : 2013
Gerda Taro written by Jane Rogoyska and has been published by Random House UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biographie categories.
A reexamination of the woman who created the legend of Robert Capa, the world'sfirst female photojournalist to die in combat, Gerda Taro In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish émigrée, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, André Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa--and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation. When Gerda was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of 26, Robert Capa was her most notable mourner--his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Capa's story. Seventy years after her death a long-lost suitcase was discovered in Mexico, containing thousands of negatives by Capa and Taro. Most astonishingly of all, the "Mexican suitcase" showed that photographs that had been attributed previously to Capa were, in fact, the work of Taro. Jane Rogoyska's book will trace Taro's life and reveal the depth of her relationship with Capa. Charismatic and extraordinary, they epitomized one of the most tumultuous periods of the century.
La Chica De La Leica
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Author : Helena Janeczek
language : es
Publisher: Tusquets Editores S.A.
Release Date : 2019-02-26
La Chica De La Leica written by Helena Janeczek and has been published by Tusquets Editores S.A. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with Fiction categories.
El 1 de agosto de 1937, un desfile lleno de banderas rojas cruza París: es el cortejo fúnebre que sigue a Gerda Taro (Stuttgart, 1910-El Escorial, 1937, y llamada en realidad Gerta Pohorylle), la primera fotorreportera muerta en un campo de batalla. Ese año hubiera cumplido veintisiete años. André Friedman (su expareja, y con quien Taro "creó" el mítico fotógrafo Robert Capa), en primera fila, está destrozado. Entre los asistentes se encuentran otros amigos de Taro de tiempo atrás: la joven Ruth Cerf, con quien vivió en París tras su huida de Alemania; Willy Chardack, que vio cómo ella prefería a Georg Kuritzkes, empeñado a su vez en combatir en las Bridagas Internacionales. En todos ellos Gerda Taro dejó una huella indeleble. Tanto que, años después, basta una conversación telefónica de Willy y Georg para desencadenar los recuerdos de todos. Así comienza esta obra, rigurosamente documentada, sobre una figura en la que, en escasos años, cristalizaron la juventud, la alegría de vivir, el talento y el compromiso en un tiempo de crisis económica, de ascenso del nazismo, de persecución y de guerra.
Unposed
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Author : Craig Semetko
language : en
Publisher: Whalen Studios Editions
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Unposed written by Craig Semetko and has been published by Whalen Studios Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Photography categories.
Follow in the footsteps of Leica Camera Ambassador Craig Semetko’s 10 year trek across the globe to capture the spontaneity, humor, and juxtaposition of the human experience. In the book’s forward, iconic photographer Elliott Erwin writes, “Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko’s book…In my book, he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.” Inspired by Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, and Elliott Erwitt, Craig Semetko is a collector of the spontaneous moment. With an uncanny knack for using Leica Cameras to capture the beautiful and unexpected that surrounds us all, Semetko offers a striking collection of imagery shot during 10 years of traveling around the world, from Edinburgh to Amsterdam, France to Los Angeles, Hanoi to Bangkok, and beyond. This visual celebration records the first decade of the twenty-first century across all walks of life. Semetko documents the muted beauty of regular people simply living their lives, and captures the humor found in the offbeat and eccentric contrasts all around us. Unposed is a memorable exploration of an era shot by a skilled photographer, dubbed by Esquire magazine as “a noble torchbearer” of the Leica Camera legacy.
Ballad For Sophie
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Author : Filipe Melo
language : en
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
Release Date : 2021-11-03
Ballad For Sophie written by Filipe Melo and has been published by Top Shelf Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-03 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
A young journalist prompts a reclusive piano superstar to open up, resulting in this stunning graphic sonata exploring a lifetime of rivalry, regret, and redemption. 1933. In the small French village of Cressy-la-Valoise, a local piano contest brings together two brilliant young players: Julien Dubois, the privileged heir of a wealthy family, and François Samson, the janitor’s son. One wins, one loses, and both are changed forever. 1997. In a huge mansion stained with cigarette smoke and memories, a bitter old man is shaken by the unexpected visit of an interviewer. Somewhere between reality and fantasy, Julien composes, like in a musical score, a complex and moving story about the cost of success, rivalry, redemption, and flying pianos. When all is said and done, did anyone ever truly win? And is there any music left to play?