Robert Capa
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 Robert Capaa (photo by Ruth Orkin, 1952). | |
| Born |
October 22, 1913 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
|---|---|
| Died |
May 25, 1954 (aged 40) Thai Binh, State of Vietnam |
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.
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
Awards
- War Cross with Palm from the French Army (posthumously), 1954
