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'''Robert Capa''' (real name: Endre Ernő Friedmann) was a Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist photographer, founder of  Magnum Photos agency, with [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], [[David Seymour]], [[William Vandivert]] and [[George Rodger]]. 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.
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[[File:Capa_robert_ms_2010_74_111.jpg|thumb|250px| roll film of The Spanish Civil War, ''Battle of Teruel, Spain'', December 1937]]
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'''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.
  
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==Biography==
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On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War.
 
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But the 'greatest war photographer' hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin. Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933.
 
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He was represented by Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer Gerda Taro. Together, they invented the 'famous' American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. He met Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway, and formed friendships with fellow photographers David 'Chim' Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
 
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From 1936 onwards, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly. His picture of a Loyalist soldier who had just been fatally wounded earned him his international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war.
 
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After his companion, Gerda Taro, was killed in Spain, Capa travelled to China in 1938 and emigrated to New York a year later. As a correspondent in Europe, he photographed the Second World War, covering the landing of American troops on Omaha beach on D-Day, the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge.
 
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On 25 May 1954 he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed. The French army awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm post-humously. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit [http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R14TSPQ].
 
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Robert Capa made photographs that achieved their exceptionally powerful effect through his strong connection to and affection for people. This attitude, and his use of the small 35-millimeter camera, allowed him to approach his subjects and throw himself into the action as no one else. The result was a breakthrough in the history of photojournalism [http://emuseum.icp.org/view/people/asitem/id/35].
 
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==Gallery==
 
 
<gallery>
 
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File:Capa robert 2489 1992.jpg|''Tour de France bicycle race, France'', July 1939
 
File:Capa robert 2489 1992.jpg|''Tour de France bicycle race, France'', July 1939
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File:Capa robert 2488 1992.jpg|''Boys on bicycles discussing the Tour de France bicycle race'', Paris, July 1939
 
File:Capa robert 2488 1992.jpg|''Boys on bicycles discussing the Tour de France bicycle race'', Paris, July 1939
 
File:Capa robert 2516 1992.jpg|''Adolphe Max, burgomater (mayor) of the city for thirty years, with his dog Happy'', Brussels, 1939
 
File:Capa robert 2516 1992.jpg|''Adolphe Max, burgomater (mayor) of the city for thirty years, with his dog Happy'', Brussels, 1939
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File:Capa robert 623 1992.jpg|''Anarchist graffiti'', Santa Eulalia, Aragón front, Spain, 1936
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File:Capa robert 1627 1992.jpg|''Rickshaws, Hankou, China'', March 1938
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File:Capa robert 2421 1992.jpg|''Members of a Laurel and Hardy fan club in masks'', Paris, 1937
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File:Capa_robert_2744_1992.jpg|''Young women being trained as Nationalist soldiers'', Hankou, China, 1938
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File:Capa robert 3238 1992.jpg|''Eiffel Tower, [[Paris]]'', July 1952
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File:Capa robert 3329 1992.jpg|''[[Henri Matisse]] in bed working, his black cat at his feet'', (Cimiez) Nice, France, August 1949
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File:Capa_robert_190_1992.jpg|''Bastille Day'', Marseille, France, July 14, 1935
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File:Capa robert 2442 1992.jpg|''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
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File:Capa robert 2494 1992.jpg|''Picnickers watching the Tour de France bicycle race'', France, June–July 1939
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File:Capa_robert_2487_1992.jpg|''Tour de France cyclist with neighborhood children before the race, Paris'', June–July 1939
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File:Capa robert 304 1992.jpg|''Maurice Thorez, Paul Faure, and Victor Basch on Place de la Bastille'', Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1936
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File:Capa robert 2428 1992.jpg|''Jacques Duclos, one of the leaders of the French Communist party, addressing the crowd on Bastille Day'', Paris, July 14, 1937
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File:Capa robert 2458 1992.jpg|''People waving flags from window on Bastille Day'', Paris, July 14, 1936
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File:Capa robert 2468 1992.jpg|''Children marching in Bastille Day parade'', Paris, July 14, 1936
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File:Capa robert 2949 1992.jpg|''British surgical unit working in an operating room set up in a church, Maiori, Italy'', September 19, 1943
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File:Capa robert 2951 1992.jpg|''Two soldiers in a hospital set up in a church, Maiori'', Italy, September 19, 1943
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File:Capa robert 3028 1992.jpg|''Interior of rubble-filled church, Normandy'', June–July 1944
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File:Capa robert 2425 1992.jpg|''Dancing in the street on the evening of Bastille Day'', Paris, July 14, 1936
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File:Capa robert 2467 1992.jpg|''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
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File:Capa robert 2469 1992.jpg|''Veterans of World War I in the Armistice Day parade commemorating the anniversary of the end of that war, Paris'', November 11, 1936
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File:Capa robert 2723 1992.jpg|''Children playing in the snow, Hankou, China'', March 1938
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File:Hemingway_by_robert_capa.jpg|[[Ernest Hemingway]] reading his notes, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940-41
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File:Capa robert 2991 1992.jpg|''American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy'', France, June 6, 1944
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File:Capa robert 2417 1992.jpg|''Women eating and drinking on a stone bench'', Lisieux, France, ca. 1936
 
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* ''Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa'', 2002
 
* ''Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa'', 2002
 
* ''Robert Capa Connu et Inconnu'', BNF éditions, Paris, 2004
 
* ''Robert Capa Connu et Inconnu'', BNF éditions, Paris, 2004
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* ''War Cross with Palm'' from the French Army (posthumously), 1954     
 
  
 
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa Capa on Wikipedia]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa Capa at Wikipedia]
  
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Latest revision as of 22:55, 25 May 2022


Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952).
Born October 22, 1913(1913-10-22)
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died May 25, 1954(1954-05-25) (aged 40)
Thai Binh, State of Vietnam
roll film of The Spanish Civil War, Battle of Teruel, Spain, December 1937

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
  • 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

Links[edit]

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