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LO1: Research into photographers

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Steve McCurry - documentary, portrait  Annie Leibovitz - portrait celebrities David Bailey - portraits Henri Cartier Bresson - documentary (compressision) Dorothea Lange - documentary  Robert Capa - War photographer  Robert Capa Robert Capa, original name, Friedmann Endre Erno (October 22, 1913 - May 1954) was a war photographer and photojournalist, as well as a professional partner of Gerda Taro, from Hungary. Capa's war photography made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. He was made unique as a photographer as he was the first to make photojournalism appear 'sexy and glamorous'. As well as being one of the first photographers to bring a camera into a battlefield he also embedded himself in with the troops with travelling to different war zones around the world.  Capa first started off by working with a German picture agency in 1931 and 1932, before later finding himself and his form of photographer in Paris, where he first got the name Ro...