Archive for March, 2011

We’re All Robert Capa Now

We’re All Robert Capa Now By Adam Leipzig Or are we? In case you don’t remember Robert Capa, he was the first great war photographer of the twentieth century, who made a name for himself by getting in the middle of the action.  He was born Endre Friedmann, but changed his name to Capa in homage to Frank Capra, because he liked Frank Capra’s movies.  Capa fir    More...

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Reality is a Flip-Cam

Reality is a Flip-Cam By Adam Leipzig Video posts coming out of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa give us a new visual language to depict “on the ground reality,” and I suspect this language will infiltrate other media and artists’ work in the coming decade. One hundred years ago Expressionist/Futurist painters used mechanical imagery and multiple v    More...

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