Robert Capa

Capa was born October, 1913 in Austria-Hungary. He died at the age of 40 in 1954 in the State of Vietnam. He originally wanted to be a writer but his first job was in Berlin as a photographer. He moved to France during the rise of Nazism and that is when he changed his name to Robert Capa from Endre Erno Friedmann.

Caoa was a Hungarian combat photographer and covered the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War. His photograph during the 1944 Normandy invasion portrayed the violence of war with unique impact. In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson. It was the first coop agency for worldwide freelance photographers.

Capa utilized the film process. His work really documented what it meant to be in war. Capa wasn't afraid to get in the middle of the action and document exactly what was going on. His work expressed his dedication to his job and what he wanted to show of war. Not many were able to make such dedication to their work and to war photography. It is a dangerous job but he loved what he did and wasn't afraid to do it. Capa died while photographing the First Indochina War when he stepped on a landmine.