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Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann;[1] October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.[2]
Capa fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. He witnessed the rise of Hitler, which led him to move to Paris, where he met and began to work with Gerta Pohorylle. Together they worked under the alias Robert Capa and became photojournalists. Though she contributed to much of the early work, she quickly created her own alias 'Gerda Taro' and they began to publish their work separately. He subsequently covered 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, with his photos published in major magazines and newspapers.[3]
During his career he risked his life numerous times, most dramatically as the only civilian photographer landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, and the liberation of Paris. His friends and colleagues included Ernest Hemingway, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck and director John Huston.
In 1947, for his work recording World War II in pictures, U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded Capa the Medal of Freedom. That same year, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers. Hungary has issued a stamp and a gold coin in his honor.
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Capa fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. He witnessed the rise of Hitler, which led him to move to Paris, where he met and began to work with Gerta Pohorylle. Together they worked under the alias Robert Capa and became photojournalists. Though she contributed to much of the early work, she quickly created her own alias 'Gerda Taro' and they began to publish their work separately. He subsequently covered 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, with his photos published in major magazines and newspapers.[3]
During his career he risked his life numerous times, most dramatically as the only civilian photographer landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, and the liberation of Paris. His friends and colleagues included Ernest Hemingway, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck and director John Huston.
In 1947, for his work recording World War II in pictures, U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded Capa the Medal of Freedom. That same year, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers. Hungary has issued a stamp and a gold coin in his honor.
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Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that October 22 is the anniversary of the birth of Hungarian-born American war photographer and photojournalist Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann) who was "the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history."
"In his short life Robert Capa photographed five wars, beginning in Spain in 1936, and finishing in 1954 during the French phase of the Indo-China War, when he stepped on a land mine.'
Rest in peace Robert Capa!
Robert Capa In Love And War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvrc9tyTs6I
Images:
1. Pablo Picasso behind Francoise Gilot 1951 photo by Robert Capa
2. 1945 Chartres, France at the time of the liberation of France. The woman with the shaved head is being punished for having loved, or having at least given comfort to, a German, an enemy of her fellow Frenchmen.
3. September 1936 'Death of a loyalist' in Spanish Civil War - taken by Robert Capa.
Biographies from
1. famousphotographers.net/robert-capa
2. atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Robert-Capa.html
Background from famousphotographers.net/robert-capa
"A Hungarian photojournalist and war photographer, Robert Capa was born in 1913 and died in 1954. He covered five wars, the Second Sino Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the First Indo-China War and the Arab Israeli War (1948).
Capa along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour, founded a cooperative organization for international freelance photographers –Magnum Photos.
Robert Capa at first wanted to be a writer but he soon developed a love for art when he found work in Berlin as a photographer. Due to the rise of Nazism in Germany, he fled to France however it became difficult for him to find a freelance photojournalist job over there. Soon he became accustomed and also changed his name and sold photos. Leon Trotsky in Copenhagen on delivering a speech in 1932, was Capa’s first published image.
Along with Gerda Taro and David Seymour, Capa worked in Spain from 1936 until 1939, documenting the Spanish Civil War. During this time, Capa became well-known worldwide for a photo title Falling Soldier. There had been much debate about this photo’s authenticity. In 1938, he went to Hankow, China to cover the Japanese invasion.
During the World War II, Capa embarked on many parts of the European Theatre to document areas of intense fighting in Europe. In 1943 during July and August, Capa was with America troops in Sicily, where he took one photograph that became prominent to the eyes of viewers.
The Magnificent Eleven was Capa’s most popular photos. They are a collection of images of the D-Day on Omaha Beach. Capa took 106 images, however almost all were destroyed in a studio in London.
Robert Capa then traveled in 1947 to the Soviet Union with John Steinbeck, his friend and a writer from America. Capa captured photographs in Batumi, Stalingard, Tbilisi, Kiev and Moscow. A year later, his photos were illustrated in A Russian Journal.
Later, in the 1950s, Japan became the next destination of Capa and that too for an exhibition related to his company Magnum Photos. Life magazine sent him on a photographic assignment to cover the Indo-China War. In 1954, Capa went on another war scene for photographic documentation however he accidently stepped on a landmine and lost one of his legs. When he was being taken to the hospital, upon arrival he was announced as dead.
Cornell Capa, his younger brother (photographer) worked to promote and preserve Robert’s legacy along with developing his own style and identity in the world. Robert Capa also believed in preserving photography. Apart from this, the Robert Capa Gold Medal in his honor was created by the Overseas Press Club.
Robert Capa is well-known to date for redefining photojournalism of war. He coined Generation X, a term given to young males and females who were nearing adulthood right after World War II. This was an “unknown” generationrn as described by Capa in Holiday and Picture Post.
Even after his death, scholars were suspicious over his image, The Falling Soldier and in 2003 a reporter working for a Spanish newspaper claimed that the photographed was staged. In 2009, a professor from Spain also accused Capa’s photography of not being real, in Shadows of Photography, his book.
In 2007, Benjamin Traver who had collected around 4,500 negatives of the photos by Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro. The collection was given to the International Center of Photography a museum in Manhattan founded by Cornell Capa.
The same museum organized a traveling retrospective – This is War: Robert Capa at Work of Capa’s creative approaches as a photojournalist."
2. Background from atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Robert-Capa.html
"In his short life Robert Capa photographed five wars, beginning in Spain in 1936, and finishing in 1954 during the French phase of the Indo-China War, when he stepped on a land mine. In his collected work the period becomes one continuing war, shifting from one front to another, the scale of the battle expanding and contracting, but never quite ending.
As a photographer who specialized in war, Capa was kept busy, and did not have much time to investigate other subjects. He understood, however, that war was more than the battles, and some of his most interesting pictures were made on the periphery of the historic events."
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"In his short life Robert Capa photographed five wars, beginning in Spain in 1936, and finishing in 1954 during the French phase of the Indo-China War, when he stepped on a land mine.'
Rest in peace Robert Capa!
Robert Capa In Love And War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvrc9tyTs6I
Images:
1. Pablo Picasso behind Francoise Gilot 1951 photo by Robert Capa
2. 1945 Chartres, France at the time of the liberation of France. The woman with the shaved head is being punished for having loved, or having at least given comfort to, a German, an enemy of her fellow Frenchmen.
3. September 1936 'Death of a loyalist' in Spanish Civil War - taken by Robert Capa.
Biographies from
1. famousphotographers.net/robert-capa
2. atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Robert-Capa.html
Background from famousphotographers.net/robert-capa
"A Hungarian photojournalist and war photographer, Robert Capa was born in 1913 and died in 1954. He covered five wars, the Second Sino Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the First Indo-China War and the Arab Israeli War (1948).
Capa along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour, founded a cooperative organization for international freelance photographers –Magnum Photos.
Robert Capa at first wanted to be a writer but he soon developed a love for art when he found work in Berlin as a photographer. Due to the rise of Nazism in Germany, he fled to France however it became difficult for him to find a freelance photojournalist job over there. Soon he became accustomed and also changed his name and sold photos. Leon Trotsky in Copenhagen on delivering a speech in 1932, was Capa’s first published image.
Along with Gerda Taro and David Seymour, Capa worked in Spain from 1936 until 1939, documenting the Spanish Civil War. During this time, Capa became well-known worldwide for a photo title Falling Soldier. There had been much debate about this photo’s authenticity. In 1938, he went to Hankow, China to cover the Japanese invasion.
During the World War II, Capa embarked on many parts of the European Theatre to document areas of intense fighting in Europe. In 1943 during July and August, Capa was with America troops in Sicily, where he took one photograph that became prominent to the eyes of viewers.
The Magnificent Eleven was Capa’s most popular photos. They are a collection of images of the D-Day on Omaha Beach. Capa took 106 images, however almost all were destroyed in a studio in London.
Robert Capa then traveled in 1947 to the Soviet Union with John Steinbeck, his friend and a writer from America. Capa captured photographs in Batumi, Stalingard, Tbilisi, Kiev and Moscow. A year later, his photos were illustrated in A Russian Journal.
Later, in the 1950s, Japan became the next destination of Capa and that too for an exhibition related to his company Magnum Photos. Life magazine sent him on a photographic assignment to cover the Indo-China War. In 1954, Capa went on another war scene for photographic documentation however he accidently stepped on a landmine and lost one of his legs. When he was being taken to the hospital, upon arrival he was announced as dead.
Cornell Capa, his younger brother (photographer) worked to promote and preserve Robert’s legacy along with developing his own style and identity in the world. Robert Capa also believed in preserving photography. Apart from this, the Robert Capa Gold Medal in his honor was created by the Overseas Press Club.
Robert Capa is well-known to date for redefining photojournalism of war. He coined Generation X, a term given to young males and females who were nearing adulthood right after World War II. This was an “unknown” generationrn as described by Capa in Holiday and Picture Post.
Even after his death, scholars were suspicious over his image, The Falling Soldier and in 2003 a reporter working for a Spanish newspaper claimed that the photographed was staged. In 2009, a professor from Spain also accused Capa’s photography of not being real, in Shadows of Photography, his book.
In 2007, Benjamin Traver who had collected around 4,500 negatives of the photos by Capa, Chim and Gerda Taro. The collection was given to the International Center of Photography a museum in Manhattan founded by Cornell Capa.
The same museum organized a traveling retrospective – This is War: Robert Capa at Work of Capa’s creative approaches as a photojournalist."
2. Background from atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Robert-Capa.html
"In his short life Robert Capa photographed five wars, beginning in Spain in 1936, and finishing in 1954 during the French phase of the Indo-China War, when he stepped on a land mine. In his collected work the period becomes one continuing war, shifting from one front to another, the scale of the battle expanding and contracting, but never quite ending.
As a photographer who specialized in war, Capa was kept busy, and did not have much time to investigate other subjects. He understood, however, that war was more than the battles, and some of his most interesting pictures were made on the periphery of the historic events."
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