Mariage Gitan, Slovaquie, 1947 Tirée à New York la même année Épreuve argentique d'époque sur papier fort, 337x268 mm, négatif perdu, trous de punaises Gypsy Wedding, Slovakia 1947 Printed in New York the same year Warm-toned vintage gelatin silver double-weight print, 337x268 mm, unique existing print (negative has been lost), pinholes, repaired corner fold This is my favorite of all Robert Capa's pictures. He gave me the print as a kind of apology for not photographing a Russian family when he went there with John Steinbeck in 1947. Knowing that I needed a family from behind the "Iron Curtain" for the LHJ's "People are People" series, he stopped to shoot a Slovakian family on his way back to Paris and New York. He accidentally attended a gypsy wedding, which he insisted had gone on for three days-this is the only photo I ever saw of it. I love it. ROBERT CAPA We first met in New York, in the winter of 1939-40. I was a Life researcher/reporter, working on war news. I had just turned 23. I had heard of Robert Capa before I met him on the 31st floor of the Time & Life Building, but I wasn't fully prepared for his charm. I envied his good looks and savoir faire. Some of us would go skating at the Rockefeller Center rink at lunch time. We invited Capa to join us. I had brought my own hockey skates, he rented figure skates. Unsteadily, he grabbed the arm of the beauteous Bobbi Locke, Dan Longwell's secretary. They made one successful tour of the rink and then tripped and crashed. I looked at the rinkside restaurant and saw several Life executives roaring with laughter. Capa and I were so different but somehow we hit it off. I became a kind of member of his family, the Friedmann family. I was invited to a Hungarian "latcho" in the West side apartment of his mother Julia. She then shared it with Bob's brother Cornell, who was then working in the Life darkroom. Their friends were mostly young darkroom workers, some became well-known photographers - Ralph Morse and Yale Joel became Life staffers. I would see Capa again many times, in the last fifteen years of his short life. Most of those memories were happy ones, verging on the hilarious, as when Myron Davis threw Bob on the floor of Life's Chicago darkroom when Bob teased him about having played a ballerina in a Midway musical. About Bob and Pinkie, his London girl friend, who asked me what her realistic chances of his marrying her were - and how she later confessed to me that her subsequent marriage to a friend of Bob's had been a disaster. And there were all the memories of working with Capa at Ladies' Home Journal and in Magnum, until the 25th of May, 1954.
Mariage Gitan, Slovaquie, 1947 Tirée à New York la même année Épreuve argentique d'époque sur papier fort, 337x268 mm, négatif perdu, trous de punaises Gypsy Wedding, Slovakia 1947 Printed in New York the same year Warm-toned vintage gelatin silver double-weight print, 337x268 mm, unique existing print (negative has been lost), pinholes, repaired corner fold This is my favorite of all Robert Capa's pictures. He gave me the print as a kind of apology for not photographing a Russian family when he went there with John Steinbeck in 1947. Knowing that I needed a family from behind the "Iron Curtain" for the LHJ's "People are People" series, he stopped to shoot a Slovakian family on his way back to Paris and New York. He accidentally attended a gypsy wedding, which he insisted had gone on for three days-this is the only photo I ever saw of it. I love it. ROBERT CAPA We first met in New York, in the winter of 1939-40. I was a Life researcher/reporter, working on war news. I had just turned 23. I had heard of Robert Capa before I met him on the 31st floor of the Time & Life Building, but I wasn't fully prepared for his charm. I envied his good looks and savoir faire. Some of us would go skating at the Rockefeller Center rink at lunch time. We invited Capa to join us. I had brought my own hockey skates, he rented figure skates. Unsteadily, he grabbed the arm of the beauteous Bobbi Locke, Dan Longwell's secretary. They made one successful tour of the rink and then tripped and crashed. I looked at the rinkside restaurant and saw several Life executives roaring with laughter. Capa and I were so different but somehow we hit it off. I became a kind of member of his family, the Friedmann family. I was invited to a Hungarian "latcho" in the West side apartment of his mother Julia. She then shared it with Bob's brother Cornell, who was then working in the Life darkroom. Their friends were mostly young darkroom workers, some became well-known photographers - Ralph Morse and Yale Joel became Life staffers. I would see Capa again many times, in the last fifteen years of his short life. Most of those memories were happy ones, verging on the hilarious, as when Myron Davis threw Bob on the floor of Life's Chicago darkroom when Bob teased him about having played a ballerina in a Midway musical. About Bob and Pinkie, his London girl friend, who asked me what her realistic chances of his marrying her were - and how she later confessed to me that her subsequent marriage to a friend of Bob's had been a disaster. And there were all the memories of working with Capa at Ladies' Home Journal and in Magnum, until the 25th of May, 1954.
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