Robert Kapa. Blood and wine. The whole truth about the life of a classic photo report

For many years, the past of the cap was more likely a mystery even for those who thought that they knew him well. But in 1947, his old friend John Herssey, the author of the brilliant book "Hiroshima" (1946), tore off a mask of cheerfulness from the cap, exposing the tragic face of a man who fled with pain and horror. “The photographer of the cap, to whom his colleagues and competitors attribute the best pictures of the Second World War, simply does not exist,” Khersi wrote in a little -known literary magazine "47". - The cap is an invention. This is an object in the form of a person - a low, dark and behaving himself as if he was attached to something. He has a spaniel"s eyes, carefully induced cynicism on his upper lip and a sign of good luck on his face.
Kershaw"s book is the result of the author’s titanic work and the team he created. Studying sources, digging in the archives, trips to the places of events, and, most importantly, meetings, conversations and numerous numerous interviews with people who knew Kapa are the foundation of this book. The undoubted plus of the book is precisely in this - in the distinction of opinions and judgments about a person. Lighting with such outbreaks of memories from different sides