Robert Capa (1913-1954)

Hungarian-American war photograph

journalist

Photographs that covered 5

wars

One of the greatest

photojournalist of the 20th
century

Used a light camera to

get very close to action
Studied in Berlin/worked in a german
agency

Moved to Paris when the nazis

came to power

First published work : picture of Leon

Trotsky in 1932

Leon Trotsky lecturing in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1932

Spanish civil war 1936-1939

Photographed the spanish civil war with

Gerda Taro and David Seymour

Took one of his most famous

photographs

Death of a loyalist militiaman, Spain, 1936

World war II 1939-1945
Took eleven photographs during the
normandy landings on omaha beach : “The
magnificent eleven”

American medic treats a captured German

Landing of the american troops on Omaha bea
soldier, Sicily, 1943
France, 1944
Arab-Israeli war 1948

Came in 1948 to Israel to

document the conflict

Took many photographs of

civilians that have a familiar
feeling

Laundry day in a settlement of Kafar Giladi, Israel, 1948

First Indochina war 1954
Covered the war for the Time magazine

Accompanied a french
regiment

Died on may 25, 1954 in

Vietnam