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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

  • 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

  • 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

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