The Hunan story was … the only thing I did in China that was worth a damn. Otherwise I think it was an ultra-reaction to the war. There was nothing to do, and so I did nothing, except drink and live it up, which was what everybody was doing.

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

Darryl Zanuck threw a party to start his daughter Susan off on her singing career and insisted that everybody be there. I went down and lit the place with six big strobes. They brought in a comedy musical act that performed with a trapeze. They would ...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

At Teheran, in 1943, I'm sitting waiting for the official portrait session to start, and suddenly I look, and there's Stalin. Beautiful cap, uniform. Somebody said he got his beige uniform from Saks Fifth Avenue. Nobody could prove or disprove it. He walked around, and he looked to ...

20.09.2012[ read full story ]

If you've seen the biography of Robert Capa, you've seen a picture of Bob in a bathtub reading. Bob came down to Washington during World War II to get his correspondent’s credentials, and he asked if he could stay at my apartment there. I said, “Sure, Bob.” In the morning, though, he...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

Someone looks at the eclipse picture, and they think, “All he did was just go click, click, click, click.” But what happened in 1979 was first that I had to find a place to shoot the eclipse over the city of Winnipeg in Canada. I wanted to show the sun’s progress across the sky in...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

While working in the archives of photographer Augusti Centelles, Joaquin D. Gasca, the curator of the exhibition Oh Centelles in-edit! and his team of researchers discovered two never-before-seen portraits of Robert Capa. The photographs were taken in Barcelona in 1938 durin...

24.05.2012[ read full story ]

Life magazine didn’t know whether they could trust me to cover the Black Panthers or the Muslims fairly in the 1960s. The Panthers and the Muslims felt the same way. The first thing Elijah Muhammad asked me when I went with Malcolm X to visit him in Arizona was “Why you working for...

24.05.2012[ read full story ]

My Life story was very brief. I was real easy on my expense account, so it was not my fault that the magazine went out of business. I had just been asked to be the photographer in London, and I was more upset about not getting to take my family there for two or three years than I...

09.05.2012[ read full story ]

A lot of the things that I did have become historical documents, particularly The Grapes of Wrath. I had been out with Dorothea Lange as she shot some pictures of migratory labor. I admired what Dorothea was doing, and I realized that migratory labor was an important story. I wa...

25.04.2012[ read full story ]

Off Guadalcanal in 1942, at one o’clock in the morning, I am on the cruiser Vincennes, and they sound general quarters. I roll out of bed and throw on my clothes, run out and get up on deck because we’re being pounded.

18.04.2012[ read full story ]