Robert Capa

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          Ernest Andrei Friedmann, or Robert Capa, was born in Budapest on October 22, 1913.  Little did he know, at the time, that he would be the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. 

         Like most photographers, he started his career with small projects, but always found himself in the middle of a war.  At the age of 18, Capa left his home and found work in Berlin.  

 From 1936-1939 Capa was in Spain photographing the tragedies of the Spanish Civil War.  After, he traveled to China to capture the Japanese Invasion.  

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       But, some of Capa's best work had come from World War II.  Capa had been in New York City at the start of WWII, because he had moved there to escape Nazi persecution.  But, after being fired from "Collier's Weekly", Capa began working for "Life" magazine, and traveled around the world taking pictures of the war.  June 6, 1944, D-Day, Capa swam ashore along with the second assault wave, armed with only two cameras and spare rolls of film.  That day he took over 100 photos, only to lose nearly all of them due to a developing mistake by a worker at "Life".  But out of the, now eight, photo's, the photo on the left is one of Capa's best work even though it is out of focus.  The picture is of a soldier swimming ashore during the D-day Invasion.  The photo below is a picture of the soldiers beginning their invasion.    After WWII, Capa took a break from photography, but shortly after his break he was in the field again.  He traveled to Southeast Asia photographing the Indochina War.  The French had been fighting there for the past 8 years, and Capa was assigned by "Life" to photograph it.  But, on May 25, 1954, Capa's photography career was suddenly ended.  While following two French regimes through dangerous areas, under fire, Capa left his jeep to photograph the advance.  A few minutes later, Capa was killed by a land-mine.  He was taken to a local hospital, but pronounced dead on arrival due to a serious chest wound, and his leg was blown to pieces.

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         Capa left behind a legacy.  There was even an award created in his honor, The Robert Capa Gold Medal.  This medal annually given to a photographer with the best published photo from abroad, requiring courageous actions to achieve the photo.  Capa was a great photographer, who always said, "If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough."  

(These are the sites where I got my information on Robert Capa)

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So, for photo, we had a close framing project using black and white film and these are my final pictures (unedited).  For my final i used the 3rd picture first row and third picture 3rd row!  I cleaned up all the dust and scratches and resized/rotated them so they came out pretty nice.  But getting to these wasnt easy.  After completing this project i realized I dislike film....alot. It all started when i exposed my first roll of film.  As dark as your room may be, its not dark enough -- Lesson learned.   Next i thought i broke the camera as i was reshooting, welll the roll of film only had 16 exposures and when i took the 16 it stopped advancing!  I thought, like my other roll, it had more... so i freaked.  Luckily nothing was wrong at all, i just wasnt aware or didnt process that the roll was done. (hey it was like 10:00 and i was tired!)  i just used all my pictures.  After getting through all that i developed, and that was the easy part!  In the end im proud with my outcome.  And yeah, so lets just say IM REALLY HAPPY WE ARE DONE WITH FILM. 

Stack Text, Figure Ground Reversal, Etc

• So, this is my sketch sheet.  These were all to kinda prepare us for making our own awesome logos.  
• The only thing that was difficult was thinking of some words to replace with pictures! that took me awhile. haha
• Also some connecting the letters was kind of difficult sometimes. but after awhile i got the hang of it.
• I used: Stacked Text (Row 2); Figure Ground Reversal (Row 1) Letter Replacement with picture (bottom); and Connecting letters to make one fluid 'shape' (bottom)
• For grading my self i give it a....7/9
• 7- this is for the execution.  They arent perfect, but i did my best.  I thought that these came out pretty well. my personal favorites are the Frog and the Smile :) 
• 9- Participation.  I had enough time to complete this.  Maybe i could have spent some more time on it, but after working on one for to long i got frustrated and moved on.  In the end, i worked through all of my classes and did my best, and finished on time.