CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/28/2020

In 'Robert Capa: Death in the Making,' a refusal to consent to tyrants

Featured image, of Republican troops departing for the Aragón front of the Spanish Civil War, August 1936, is reproduced from Death in the Making, Damiani and ICP's beautiful new facsimile edition of Robert Capa's 1939 photobook. The writing scrawled on the side of the train, just about to leave from Barcelona, reads, "UHP (Unión de Hermanos Proletarios; Union of Proletarian Brothers) swear on these letters before you die brothers rather than consent to tyrants.” Collecting Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour's photojournalistic pictures of civilians and soldiers rising up against General Francisco Franco’s fascist insurrection against Spain’s democratically elected government in the 1930s, this volume is printed from gorgeous new scans of all the photographs in the original edition. It faithfully reproduces the original captions by Capa, preface by Jay Allen and layout by photographer André Kertész, and also includes a new afterword by ICP curator (and curator of the Robert Capa Archive at ICP), Cynthia Young.