After Robert Capa
Copying and condensing images from Hungarian-American war photojournalist Robert Capa’s work accompanied my reading of The Great War and Modern Memory in which American cultural and historian Paul Fussel explores how writers such as Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves memorialized World War I as a historical experience. Capa’s work made vivid the intersections between war and quotidian life, and I became interested in how his witnessing of World War II and the Spanish Civil War shaped a collective conceptualization of those historical experiences.
