Capa vs Adams: should a photograph shock or soothe?

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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 pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough — I stood in the surf at Normandy while men fell around me, because truth bleeds.

ANSEL ADAMS

And I climbed to Yosemite's high country for a moonrise over Hernandez, because a photograph can also lift a soul instead of wounding it.

ROBERT CAPA

A mountain will still be there tomorrow, Ansel; the boy dying in that frame gets one instant, and the world must see it.

ANSEL ADAMS

But when your instant fades, my granite endures — I give people a reason to keep the world worth photographing at all.

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