Monthly Archives: July 2011

Robert Capa’s Bastille Days

Robert Capa, [Bastille Day, Marseille, France], July 14, 1935 Robert Capa, [Maurice Thorez, Paul Faure, and Victor Basch on Place de la Bastille, Bastille Day, Paris], July 14, 1936 Robert Capa, [Jacques Duclos, one of the leaders of the French … Continue reading

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Tour de France Aficionados

Robert Capa, [Watching the Tour de France bicycle race in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France], July 1939 Robert Capa, [Picnickers watching the Tour de France bicycle … Continue reading

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Fated Bonds

Herbert Mason Great Dome of St. Paul’s cathedral surrounding by burning city of London during major incendiary bomb attack by Nazis, 1940–41 Robert Capa [British surgical unit working in an operating room set up in a church, Maiori, Italy], September … Continue reading

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