Capa, self-portrait photograph
Robert Capa
Original name (Hungarian form):
Friedmann Endre Ernő
Born:
1913, Budapest, Hungary
Died:
May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam (aged 41)

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)