ROBERT CAPA (1913–1954)

ROBERT CAPA (1913–1954) | Collaborator, Chartres, August 16, 1944 | Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1970s on single-weight glossy paper, in excellent condition 19,5 x 29 cm Archive stamp of the Swiss publisher “Edition Rencontre Lausanne” with handwriten notes on photographer and title, also handwritten numbered on the reverse LITERATURE Robert Capa, Slightly out of focus, New York 1947, p. 176; Robert Capa, Images of War, New York 1964, p. 134f.; Richard Whelan (ed.), Robert Capa. The Definitive Collection, London 2001, p. 395. The rarely offered though widely published photograph shows a French woman with her baby from a German soldier, being driven through the streets after she was punished by having her head shaved. Die selten angebotete, aber vielfach publizierte Fotografie zeigt eine französische Frau mit ihrem Baby von einem deutschen Soldaten, die durch die Straßen getrieben wird, nachdem sie mit einer Kopfrasur bestraft worden war.