70 Search the Internet and find which American writer and two British ones wrote about the Spanish Civil war. The title of the book refers to his famous photos of D-Day which were partially damaged during development by a lab technician to the extent that they were slightly out of focus . Falling Soldier by Robert Capa GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS A women s story Documentary photography experienced a new expansion in the United States through the work of Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti, acquiring a social and political dimension. Lange s portraits of emigrant farmers and unemployed men who wandered in the streets during the Great Depression influenced later documentary photography. Embodied by Sabine Weiss in France, the humanist photography movement developed after the war, gaining a certain uncanniness in the scenes that Diane Arbus captured on the streets of New York. Similarly, Paz Err zuriz turned her lens towards marginalised people, but her work was part of a political resistance under the Chilean dictatorship. Gerda Taro s first major single-signature reportage was published in Regards during the Spanish Civil War. Her photographic focus was on the war front but also on the civilian population. Their emotional power makes her work an unforgettable chronicle. The Magnum legendary photojournalists ONLINE RESOURCES Slightly out of focus grim: cupo slightly: leggermente uncanniness: aura magica to wander: vagabondare 170 Creative artS Henri Cartier-Bresson became known for inventing the term the decisive moment in everyday life: that creative fraction of a second when a Photograph by Henry Cartier-Bresson photographer takes a picture which he must be able to see and capture, otherwise it is gone forever. Robert Capa first achieved fame during the Spanish Civil War. By 1936 his mature style fully emerged in grim, close-up views of death. Such immediate images embodied Capa s famous saying, If your pictures aren t good enough, then you aren t close enough. He then covered World War 2 and his photographs of the Normandy Invasion became some of the most memorable of the war. In 1954 he volunteered to photograph the French Indochina War and was killed by a land mine. Among his most famous quotes included in his biography, Slightly out of Focus , are: The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda , A cause without images is a lost cause , I would say that if the average person could see the reality of war, there would be no more war , I am not interested in shooting new things I am interested to see things new . David Seymour used his camera as a weapon with which to document the injustice and violence that plagued the world. His most memorable photographs document civilians behind the front lines coping with the devastating effects of war. Photograph by Gerda Taro