Fine Print: Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. France, 1948 Portraiture Before he arrived in Abkhazia

Before he arrived in Abkhazia

He was very generous and let me use it and I shot the whole roll of film on it

Eyes that are wide open to life

Rodger turned his lens towards Africa’s landscapes and wildlife

Fine Print: Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. France, 1948 Portraiture Before he arrived in AbkhaziaWhile on assignment in the South of France in the summer of 1948, Capa, who had met Picassos partner Francoise Gilot in Paris in 1945, spent time with the couple and their children on the Cote DAzur. Capa was a friend, so it was not formal at all. Gilot said of the photographs Capa took of them at the timePicasso playing in the sand on the beach with his son, dutifully carrying a shade over Gilots head, a side of the artist that had seldom been seen.