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Vintage gelatin silver print
9.4 x 6.4 in. (9.13 x 6.18 in. picture)
Two red photographer's credit stamps Photo Robert Capa and two red Life Photo by Robert Capa credit stamps and typescript label R. Capa Life Photo - Normandy 1944 on the verso
These high-quality prints on baryta paper allow a contemporary dating of the shots taken by Robert Capa in Normandy in 1944. They should not be confused with the so-called 'press' images that photo agencies working for newspapers and magazines used to distribute and that often turned out to be not original prints but prints obtained by re-photographing a positive and not directly from the original negative, thus resulting in poor quality prints. The LIFE stamp excludes this case precisely because in 1944 Capa had a contract with the magazine that commissioned and used the photographers' shots In addition, historical research has led to the conclusion that, based on the certain date of the known and published shots, these two shots could have been taken between 9 and 30 June 1944 in the 'Parc Naturel Régional des Marais du Cotentin' on the way to the liberation of the town of Cherbourg. In 2016, the two prints were submitted in Paris to the supervision of John Morris who, at the time, was the head of the London editorial office of 'LIFE' magazine. John Morris confirmed the authenticity of the information on the back of the two images and confirmed that many prints by Robert Capa and other LIFE photographers such as Bob Landry, Ralph Morse and George Rodger went missing in the various editorial offices.
9.4 x 6.4 in. (9.13 x 6.18 in. picture)
Two red photographer's credit stamps Photo Robert Capa and two red Life Photo by Robert Capa credit stamps and typescript label R. Capa Life Photo - Normandy 1944 on the verso
These high-quality prints on baryta paper allow a contemporary dating of the shots taken by Robert Capa in Normandy in 1944. They should not be confused with the so-called 'press' images that photo agencies working for newspapers and magazines used to distribute and that often turned out to be not original prints but prints obtained by re-photographing a positive and not directly from the original negative, thus resulting in poor quality prints. The LIFE stamp excludes this case precisely because in 1944 Capa had a contract with the magazine that commissioned and used the photographers' shots In addition, historical research has led to the conclusion that, based on the certain date of the known and published shots, these two shots could have been taken between 9 and 30 June 1944 in the 'Parc Naturel Régional des Marais du Cotentin' on the way to the liberation of the town of Cherbourg. In 2016, the two prints were submitted in Paris to the supervision of John Morris who, at the time, was the head of the London editorial office of 'LIFE' magazine. John Morris confirmed the authenticity of the information on the back of the two images and confirmed that many prints by Robert Capa and other LIFE photographers such as Bob Landry, Ralph Morse and George Rodger went missing in the various editorial offices.
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