Robert Capa

Horst Faas dies at 79; Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer

2012-05-14 00:00:00

As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was...

Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist

2012-01-06 00:00:00

Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99. Arnold died...

The Reading Life: Geoff Dyer on 'The Missing of the Somme'

2011-08-18 16:35:20

William T. Vollmann and Susan Meiselas talk photography

2011-03-17 16:34:04

Hondros dead covering war, which he saw as his calling

2011-04-20 21:32:47

Libya blast kills photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros

2011-04-21 00:00:00

Reporting from Misurata, Libya, and Los Angeles -- Barely two months ago, combat photographer Tim Hetherington sent out a tweet from the Academy Awards ceremony, where his Afghanistan war film "Restrepo" was up for the best documentary trophy. "At the...

Book Review: 'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition' by Geoff Dyer

2011-04-24 00:00:00

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition Selected Essays and Reviews Geoff Dyer Graywolf: 422 pp., $18 paper "Almost as soon as I began writing for magazines and newspapers," Geoff Dyer tells us in the introduction to "Otherwise Known as the Human...

Dennis Stock dies at 81; friend and photographer of James Dean

2010-01-14 00:00:00

Dennis Stock, a photographer best known for his iconic Life magazine photo of film legend James Dean walking through a rainy Times Square in a dark overcoat, has died. He was 81. Stock, who was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer a few weeks ago and...

Magnum Photos Collection opens to the public

2010-06-18 16:33:01

'Exiles in the Garden' by Ward Just

2009-07-12 00:00:00

Exiles in the Garden A Novel Ward Just Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 280 pp., $25 Ward Just left an active life as a journalist, serving as a distinguished reporter in Washington and Vietnam, to dedicate himself to fiction. Over the last 39 years he...

Carolyn Cole

2006-04-17 09:20:05

PROFESSIONAL Los Angeles Times, since 1994 Has captured images of national and international events over the past 12 years, covering assignments in Africa, the Middle East, California and New York. Sacramento Bee Staff photographer, 1992-94. Freelance...

Hugh Van Es dies at 67; Dutch photojournalist took famous Saigon evacuation photo

2009-05-15 00:00:00

Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- a group of people scaling a stairway to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop -- died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said....

War photographer Robert Capa, who said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough," landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

2010-06-04 08:41:57

Robert Capa's famed 1936 black-and-white photograph of a Spanish soldier -- taken at the moment he suffered a fatal gunshot -- is an unforgettable image of the Spanish Civil War. The Getty Museum purchased "Cerro Muriano, Spain / The Falling Soldier" in April 2006.

2008-11-10 13:49:02