Robert Capa
American photographer (1913-1954) · France · Artists · Died at 40 · also Hungary · also United States
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Something wrong?He landed with the first wave at Omaha Beach - the only civilian photographer there - and made five wars his beat. Robert Capa turned combat into an art form, close enough to die doing it.
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1938 - War photographer Robert Capa during the Chinese-Japanese war, RP-F-2012-140 (cropped)
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DO NOT TOUCH - Hervé-Lóránth Ervin, 2015.10.07 (5)
Joris Ivens, John Fernhout en Robert Capa aan het werk in Hankow, China, RP-F-2012-139
Joris Ivens, John Fernhout en Robert Capa met wapens poserend tussen twee Chinese militairen tijdens de Chinees-Japanse oorlog, RP-F-2012-140
Leica II mod. D - Robert CapaIn their own words 1
, If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
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Born Endre Ernő Friedmann in Hungary in 1913, he fled political repression as a teenager and moved to Berlin, then watched Hitler's rise push him to Paris. There he met Gerda Taro and they began publishing their work, inventing the name that would carry him through five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He shot the liberation of Paris, the wreckage of London and North Africa and Italy, and counted Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Huston as friends. In 1947 Eisenhower gave him the Medal of Freedom; that same year he co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris, the first cooperative agency for freelance photographers worldwide. He stepped on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954, forty years old.
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