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{{Infobox artist | {{Infobox artist | ||
|image = Capa_1952.JPG | |image = Capa_1952.JPG | ||
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|caption = Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952). | |caption = Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952). | ||
|birth_date = {{birth date|1913|10|22|mf=y}} | |birth_date = {{birth date|1913|10|22|mf=y}} | ||
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|death_place = Thai Binh, State of Vietnam | |death_place = Thai Binh, State of Vietnam | ||
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− | '''Robert Capa''' ( | + | [[File:Capa_robert_ms_2010_74_111.jpg|thumb|250px| 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. | ||
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<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
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 3238 1992.jpg|''Eiffel Tower, [[Paris]]'', July 1952 | File:Capa robert 3238 1992.jpg|''Eiffel Tower, [[Paris]]'', July 1952 | ||
File:Capa robert 3329 1992.jpg|''[[Henri Matisse]] in bed working, his black cat at his feet'', (Cimiez) Nice, France, August 1949 | File:Capa robert 3329 1992.jpg|''[[Henri Matisse]] in bed working, his black cat at his feet'', (Cimiez) Nice, France, August 1949 | ||
− | + | File:Capa_robert_190_1992.jpg|''Bastille Day'', Marseille, France, July 14, 1935 | |
+ | 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 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2494 1992.jpg|''Picnickers watching the Tour de France bicycle race'', France, June–July 1939 | ||
+ | File:Capa_robert_2487_1992.jpg|''Tour de France cyclist with neighborhood children before the race, Paris'', June–July 1939 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 304 1992.jpg|''Maurice Thorez, Paul Faure, and Victor Basch on Place de la Bastille'', Bastille Day, Paris, July 14, 1936 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2458 1992.jpg|''People waving flags from window on Bastille Day'', Paris, July 14, 1936 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2468 1992.jpg|''Children marching in Bastille Day parade'', Paris, July 14, 1936 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2949 1992.jpg|''British surgical unit working in an operating room set up in a church, Maiori, Italy'', September 19, 1943 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2951 1992.jpg|''Two soldiers in a hospital set up in a church, Maiori'', Italy, September 19, 1943 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 3028 1992.jpg|''Interior of rubble-filled church, Normandy'', June–July 1944 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2425 1992.jpg|''Dancing in the street on the evening of Bastille Day'', Paris, July 14, 1936 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2723 1992.jpg|''Children playing in the snow, Hankou, China'', March 1938 | ||
+ | File:Hemingway_by_robert_capa.jpg|[[Ernest Hemingway]] reading his notes, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940-41 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2991 1992.jpg|''American soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day, Normandy'', France, June 6, 1944 | ||
+ | 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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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
− | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa Capa | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa Capa at Wikipedia] |
− | [[Category:Photography]] | + | [[Category:Photography|Capa, Robert]] |
Latest revision as of 23:55, 25 May 2022
Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952). | |
Born |
October 22, 1913 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
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Died |
May 25, 1954 Thai Binh, State of Vietnam | (aged 40)
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]
Eiffel Tower, Paris, July 1952
Henri Matisse in bed working, his black cat at his feet, (Cimiez) Nice, France, August 1949
Ernest Hemingway reading his notes, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1940-41
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