Photography Meets Film: Capa, Ivens and Fernhout in China 1938

Photo-journalist Robert Capa had been asked to join the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens and his cameraman John Fernhout as stills photographer and camera assistant on their film The 400 Million (1939). In volume 8 of the Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, Rixt A. Bosma re-examines the relationship between Capa and Ivens while they were travelling and working together in China during the Sino-Japanese War in 1938.

The Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund enables young researchers from all over the world to explore the photography collection of the Rijksmuseum. The results of these studies are presented each year in the series Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography, whose publication is also generously made possible by the Manfred and Hanna Heiting Fund.

English edition | 40 images | ISBN 978 90 71450 31 0
Concept and design: Manfred Heiting | Layout: Ger Hudepol Productions