Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography

. Florent Silloray is the illustrator of six books published in French, and the author and illustrator of The Book of Roger, a graphic novel adaptation of the memoirs of a soldier who spent World War II in a prison camp

. About the Author Florent Silloray is the illustrator of six books published in French, and the author and illustrator of The Book of Roger, a graphic novel adaptation of the memoirs of a soldier who spent World War II in a prison camp

Robert Capa: A Graphic Biography, written in the first person, follows his personal and professional life and through his eyes, the social upheaval and earth-shattering wars of the 20th century. He went abroad with the US army to record Allied involvement in WWII, including D-Day on Omaha beach. It shows his intimate life and his relationships with the day's larger-than-life personalities: Ingrid Bergman, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and many others. They show his professional work, his personal battles, his victories and struggles, and his legacy: the founding of the Magnum, a cooperative photo agency which gives photographers control of their work. Sepia watercolors wash the book in the fog of war and recall Capa's generation on the cusp of color film. He went on to cover the war in Leipzig, Nuremberg, Berlin, London and Paris. Driven by his conviction that "if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," he was with a French patrol when he stepped on a landmine and was killed, camera in hand.. Capa made several trips to document the Spanish Civil War, where he took the seminal image, "Death of a Loyalist Soldier" for which he was heralded as "the greatest war photographer in the world". "It is not always easy" he said, "to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the suffering." Born in 1913 to a Jewish family in Budapest, Endre Friedmann left home at 18 for Germany where he