Robert Capa

(1913-1954)

    Robert Capa (born Ernő Endre Friedmann, ; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. Friedman had fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. He witnessed Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which led him to move to Paris, where he met and began to work with his professional partner Gerda Taro, and they began to publish their work separately. Capa's deep friendship with David Seymour-Chim was captured in Martha Gellhorn's novella Two by Two. He subsequently covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the First Indochina War, with his photos published in major magazines and newspapers. During his career he risked his life numerous times, most dramatically as the only civilian photographer landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, and the liberation of Paris. His friends and colleagues included Ernest Hemingway, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck and director John Huston. In 1947, for his work recording World War II in pictures, U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded Capa the Medal of Freedom. That same year, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers. Hungary has issued a stamp and a gold coin in his honor. He was killed when he stepped on a landmine in Vietnam.

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    Projects

    Death of a Loyalist Soldier. Cordoba, Spain. 1936. Robert Capa
    Death in the Making

    The Spanish Civil War through black-and-white war photography, capturing soldiers and civilians in emotionally charged moments that illustrate both the devastation of war and the human perspective of those affected.

    Books

    Robert Capa: Death in the Making
    • Damiani, 2020
    Robert Capa
    • Thames & Hudson, 2009
    Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection
    • Phaidon, 2004
    Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa
    • Jonathan Cape, 2013
    Robert Capa in the Making
    • Éditions Xavier Barral, 2024
    Robert Capa
      Robert Capa at Work: This Is War
      • Steidl, 2007
      Fotografías de Robert Capa Sobre la Guerra Civil Española
      • El Viso, 1990
      Robert Capa
      • Stern, 2012
      Robert Capa: 1933–1954
      • Silvana, 2023
        Robert Capa (1913-1954) | PhotoAnthology