D-day : remembering the battle that won the war : 70 years later.
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TextPublisher: New York, New York : Life Books, an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc., [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 144 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1618931024; 9781618931023Other title: 70 years later : D-day | Seventy years later : D-dayUniform titles: Life (Chicago, Ill.) Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 940.542/14 LOC classification: D756.5.N6 | B749 2014Summary: PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTAGE. Probably the most famous combat photographs ever made were those taken on the beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasions by Robert Capa, shooting for LIFE and going in with the first wave. The saga of those images has been told before and will be again in this commemorative book: How Capa got out alive (he would later be killed while covering war in Southeast Asia), how he got his film back to London for transfer to New York, how most of his images were ruined and the 11 frames that survived had taken on a grainy quality that seemed to reflect the shaking beach under German bombardment, and even how Steven Spielberg used that look to inform the first half-hour of his classic film Saving Private Ryan.
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"With an account of the day by Douglas Brinkley"-- Dust jacket.
PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTAGE. Probably the most famous combat photographs ever made were those taken on the beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasions by Robert Capa, shooting for LIFE and going in with the first wave. The saga of those images has been told before and will be again in this commemorative book: How Capa got out alive (he would later be killed while covering war in Southeast Asia), how he got his film back to London for transfer to New York, how most of his images were ruined and the 11 frames that survived had taken on a grainy quality that seemed to reflect the shaking beach under German bombardment, and even how Steven Spielberg used that look to inform the first half-hour of his classic film Saving Private Ryan.
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