Yesterday was D-Day and it's not too late to post a link to this Robert Capa portfolio of pictures from June of 1944. I reflected on the event by watching "Saving Private Ryan" for the first time in over ten years - which is very powerful, if bound by Hollywood conventions - and listening to President Obama's speech from Normandy, celebrating the veterans of D-Day. There's little, really, that can be said about this epic, world-changing event other than an expression of awe at the courage and sacrifice of those men who created a beach-head and second front against the Nazi war machine those first few days of the Normandy invasion.
June 07, 2009
Capa's D-Day and after...
If you watch that opening sequence carefully, Reg, you'll see that Spielberg's actually staging some of Capa's D-Day pictures.
Posted by: Akaky | June 12, 2009 at 02:22 PM