Near our lodges, the Liberation of Paris Museum has a brand new (free!) exhibition on provide in collaboration with the Magnum Pictures company – Robert Capa – Struggle Photographer, with greater than 60 classic prints, magazines, paperwork and private objects aimed to provide a brand new contextualised studying of Capa’s work.
Robert Capa’s conflict photographs are, for a lot of, people who outline the foremost conflicts of the twentieth century. His approach of capturing scenes the place human life is at risk reminds us that many years later, conflict photographers are nonetheless risking every little thing, together with their lives, whereas doing their important work: immortalising the reality and horrors of conflict.
The exhibition can be an opportunity to be taught much more about Capa’s life, notably as an exiled Hungarian residing in Paris between the wars, and his photographic model which voluntarily veered in direction of photographs that might please the press, to such a degree in actual fact that accusations have been made about him probably staging sure photographs (for instance, his well-known shot The Fallen Soldier taken in 1936 in the course of the Spanish Civil Struggle).
Linked with the exhibition, the museum is organising two free conferences (in French, locations restricted), every of which lasts two hours:
— on 17th March at 6.30pm, Les réfugiés juifs antifascistes entre les deux guerres à Paris with Zoé Grumberg and Michel Lefebvre, and
— the 14th April at 6.30pm, Les photographes du Entrance populaire with Françoise Denoyelle and Tangui Perron.
A ebook (30€) can be being printed to accompany the exhibition, accessible right here at amazon.fr.
The exhibition Robert Capa – Struggle Photographer is on the Liberation of Paris Museum (right here) till twentieth December 2026
Open on daily basis besides Monday from 10am-6pm
Free!
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