Robert Capa
 Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952). | |
| Born |
October 22, 1913 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
|---|---|
| Died |
May 25, 1954 (aged 40) Thai Binh, State of Vietnam |
Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann) was a Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist, co-founder of Magnum Photos agency. He documented the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War.
Works[edit]
Tour de France bicycle race, France, July 1939
Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France, July 1939
Watching the Tour de France in front of the bicycle shop owned by Pierre Cloarec, one of the cyclists in the race, Pleyben, Brittany, France, July 1939
Soldier of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) with dove, Aragón, Spain, August 1936
Boys on bicycles discussing the Tour de France bicycle race, Paris, July 1939
Adolphe Max, burgomater (mayor) of the city for thirty years, with his dog Happy, Brussels, 1939
Anarchist graffiti, Santa Eulalia, Aragón front, Spain, 1936
Rickshaws, Hankou, China, March 1938
Members of a Laurel and Hardy fan club in masks, Paris, 1937
Young women being trained as Nationalist soldiers, Hankou, China, 1938
Eiffel Tower, Paris, July 1952
Henri Matisse in bed working, his black cat at his feet, (Cimiez) Nice, France, August 1949
Bastille Day, Marseille, France, July 14, 1935
Crowd in front of political posters the day of the election run-offs that would put into power the leftist-liberal Popular Front coalition government, Saint-Denis, France, May 3, 1936
Picnickers watching the Tour de France bicycle race, France, June–July 1939
Tour de France cyclist with neighborhood children before the race, Paris, June–July 1939
Maurice Thorez, Paul Faure, and Victor Basch on Place de la Bastille, Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1936
Jacques Duclos, one of the leaders of the French Communist party, addressing the crowd on Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1937
People waving flags from window on Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1936
Children marching in Bastille Day parade, Paris, July 14, 1936
British surgical unit working in an operating room set up in a church, Maiori, Italy, September 19, 1943
Two soldiers in a hospital set up in a church, Maiori, Italy, September 19, 1943
Interior of rubble-filled church, Normandy, June–July 1944
Dancing in the street on the evening of Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1936
Bastille Day parade float featuring the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky, who was revered by the international Communist movement and had died a few weeks earlier, Paris, July 14, 1936
Veterans of World War I in the Armistice Day parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of that war, Paris, November 11, 1936
Children playing in the snow, Hankou, China, March 1938
Ernest Hemingway reading his notes, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940-41
American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy, France, June 6, 1944
Women eating and drinking on a stone bench, Lisieux, France, ca. 1936
Literature[edit]
- Death in the Making, 1938
- The Battle of Waterloo Road, 1941
- Invasion!, 1944
- Slightly Out of Focus, Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1947
- A Russian Journal, by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa, Viking, New York, 1948
- Report on Israel, by Irwin Shaw and Robert Capa, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1950
- Robert Capa: Photographs, Aperture Foundation Inc., 1996
- Robert Capa: Photographs, trans. Beatriz Karam Guimares, Cosac & Naify Edicoes, Sao Paulo, 2000
- Heart of Spain, 1999
- Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection, Phaidon Press Ltd, UK, 2001
- Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa, 2002
- Robert Capa Connu et Inconnu, BNF éditions, Paris, 2004
