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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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+ | ==Works== | ||
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+ | File:Capa robert 2489 1992.jpg|''Tour de France bicycle race, France'', July 1939 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2491 1992.jpg|''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 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2492 1992.jpg|''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 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 658 1992.jpg|''Soldier of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) with dove'', Aragón, Spain, August 1936 | ||
+ | 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 623 1992.jpg|''Anarchist graffiti'', Santa Eulalia, Aragón front, Spain, 1936 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 1627 1992.jpg|''Rickshaws, Hankou, China'', March 1938 | ||
+ | File:Capa robert 2421 1992.jpg|''Members of a Laurel and Hardy fan club in masks'', Paris, 1937 | ||
+ | File:Capa_robert_2744_1992.jpg|''Young women being trained as Nationalist soldiers'', Hankou, China, 1938 | ||
+ | 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_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 | ||
+ | </gallery> | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
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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]] |
Revision as of 11:27, 2 June 2015
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
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
- 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