Robert Capa: “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you’re
not close enough.”
Picture
post introduced Robert Capa as the “Greatest War photographer in the world,”
despite the fact that he hated war. He
was born in Budapest in 1913 as Andre Friendmann to Jewish parents. He studied in Berlin until he was driven out
by the threat of the Nazis which led to him settling in Paris in 1933.
With the
help of photojournalist and his girlfriend Herda Taro he invented the famous
American photographer we know as Robert Capa and sold his prints under that
name.
He began
covering the wars in 1936. He covered
the Spanish Civil war and the second world war.
He was there for D-Day landing, the liberation of Paris and the Battle
of the Bulge. In 1954 after he said he
had quit war photography he went back one last time for an assignment in
Indochina. Sadly while there he stepped
on a landmine and was killed. However
his legacy lives on through his amazing photos some of which are the only
photos available of certain events.
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| Liberation of Paris |
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| American in Fighter Plane |
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| Parachutist Preparing to Board the Plane |
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