Robert Capa

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Robert Capa

American photographer

Also known as: Friedmann Endre Ernő

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Last Updated: Dec 9, 2024 • Article History

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Original name (Hungarian form):: Friedmann Endre Ernő

Born:: 1913, Budapest, Hungary

Died:: May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam (aged 41)

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‘We’re devastated’: anger as Madrid backtracks on museum plan for site of Robert Capa’s famous civil war photo • Dec. 8, 2024, 1:39 AM ET (The Guardian)

Robert Capa (born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam) was a photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. In 1931 and 1932 Capa worked for Dephot, a German picture agency, before establishing himself in Paris, where he assumed the name Robert Capa. He first achieved fame as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. By 1936 his mature style fully emerged in grim, close-up views of death such as Loyalist Soldier, Spain. Such immediate images embodied Capa’s famous saying, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, then you ...(100 of 269 words)

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