Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Garda Taro
Marc Aronson
Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the invention of modern photojournalism by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos follows alongside war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. This is a great resource for someone who would want to know more about war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro and their impact on photojournalism from 1934 till 1955. This resource describes the events that they photographed and the political environments throughout their assignments. This resource is a biography of them as war photographers. This was published in 2017 and from what I can find has not been republished. The resource is organized into chapters. There is a table of contents to help the reader navigate. It begins with a prologue of Robert Capa in 1944 and then goes in chronological order starting in 1934. There are two interludes mixed throughout that help explain the impact of photojournalism during this time and the pressure that they faced due to their work as war photographers. In the back there is an appendix, cast of characters, timeline (1929-2017). There is also a section in the back that describes how they came to write the book, collaborators, acknowledgments, sources, notes, bibliography, web resources and an index. They also have a note on to the reader before the table of contents: “For further details on where, when, and by whom each photo was taken, please see icp.org/browse/archive/collections/eyes-of-the-world, kindly created for us by the International Center for Photography” (Aronson, vi). According to the bib record this resource is actually considered a young adult resource, 12-18 year olds. I think that this would be great for teens to adults looking for more information about war photography and or the lives of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. This was a source I found in my public library that was suggested when I found the Ken Burn book, Our America.
