Capa vs Adams: should a photograph rush in or stand still?

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ROBERT CAPA vs ANSEL ADAMS go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

ROBERT CAPA

If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough - I ran into gunfire while you set up a tripod on a hill.

ANSEL ADAMS

You chase the blur of the moment; I compose it, from the negative's score to the print's performance, so the mountain outlives us both.

ROBERT CAPA

Your Yosemite will still be there tomorrow, Ansel - my soldier at Normandy had one second to be immortal, and I gave it to him.

ANSEL ADAMS

But a fleeting second forgotten is nothing; I built a whole zone system so that eternity itself would hold still long enough to be seen.

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