Look Universal – El Universal

By Laura Garza

we All know Robert Capa for his journalistic work as a war correspondent, for being the founder of the agency Magnum, along with Cartier Bresson and his negatives lost for seventy years after the historical D-Day in Normandy.

Coat is one of the photographers that have given meaning to photojournalism, his work in the Spanish Civil War, the 2nd World War, the Battle of Normandy, the Arab-Israeli War and the Indonesia’s marked a time of negative photographs of combat.

In the 38, was listed as "the best war photographer in the world" by the magazine Picture Post, a magazine specialized and demanding in the subject of the photograph.

We are talking about the 40 years, just to little time for AGFA to present films in color (1936), and eventually all the photographers had in their hands Kodachrome.

Robert Capa, of Hungarian origin but nationalized american consolidated its war work in black-and-white. For logical reasons, was the form of work of other photojournalists, and it is that few ventured to make the leap to modernity.

as, few journals selected material color, since they preferred the black-and-white to highlight the rawness of the wars and by speed at the time of reveal.

Layer began to test the advantages of the color in the Second World War and in the Postwar period, but it was until later when he realized that photographing everyday scenes, portraits and social life/culture, gave a twist to their composition and the reaction of the readers.

he Was the founder of the international agency Magnum, along with the French Henrie Cartir-Breson, another initiator of photojournalism, one of the most important news agencies in the world.

The work of Robert Capa is inexhaustible, for more exhibitions that are presented, it seems that it does not end to surprise us.

a couple of years Ago, he exhibited his work in San Ildefonso with The Mexican Suitcase, negatives that were taken between him, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.

Today premiered his exhibition Coat color in the premises of the famous and admired Circle of Fine Arts in Madrid, where will show 4,200 slides of 35mm Kodachrome slides, 21/4 Ektachrome and large formats, color, material preserved by the ICP (International Center of Photography) from New York.

For the course will include personal documents, snapshots, and a chronology, 100% visual on his career as a photographer and correspondent from 1940 to 1954.

For those who walk on past, don’t miss the Picasso Hall of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

Robert Capa, is and will remain a legend for those who love photography and photojournalism.

@lauragarza

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Laura Garza is a photographer and creative director of Red Circle.

it Has been the editor of the CIRCUS in Record Monterrey, PLAYERS OF LIFE, photo editor of the weekly Class of The daily el Universal, the magazine Who’s editor of the group of photographers of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Professor of Photojournalism and Communication Transmedia. He currently directs projects of dissemination, content strategies and digital communication.