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Article: Review of `Robert Capa: In Love and War,' Wednesday on PBS.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2003
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Byline: Hal Boedeker
He won acclaim in his 20s as "the greatest war photographer in the world." He had an affair with Ingrid Bergman. He did stunning work during D-Day, and most of it was lost because of a technician's error.
"Robert Capa: In Love and War" pulls together the strands of a remarkable life. It's another first-rate biography from "American Masters," a PBS series that has saluted everyone from Willie Nelson to Leonard Bernstein to Lucille Ball.
Capa is a dashing, complex figure. He was a gambler who went to almost any lengths to get a photograph, an expert noted for the humanity of his work, a man of purpose who fought fascism.
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