"Love" and "war" - these are two words that I'm very interested in, and two words that seemed to follow Capa through this life. This was an absolutely fascinating watch, and gave me a much more rounded understanding of who Endre Friedmann (who later became 'Robert Capa') was.
I'm now sure that the direction I want to push my work in is tracing this balance between man and myth, the balance between the political, passionately Democratic, Hungarian-born Jew, who felt an instinctive urge to document the faces, triumphs, dangers and travesties of war, and the hard-drinking, hard-gambling, hard-partying bohemian, eternally homeless and surrounded by gaggles of friends, including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Pablo Picasso, and lovers, including Ingrid Bergman.
I now know what I want to convey in my work - the problem now is finding a way to do so.
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