What makes Capa a great photo journalist? asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt. Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene.
~ John Steinbeck
