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Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
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culture · Hungarian-American photographer (1913–1954) · war correspondent · photographer · war photographer · photojournalist · journalist · writer · professional photographer · also Robert Capa, Andre Friedmann, André Friedmann, Endre Ernö Friedmann, Roberṭ Ḳapah, André Friedman
Born 22 October 1913 · Died 25 May 1954 · Q152524
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
The Art Newspaper: Robert Capa show at Mussolini’s villa sparks controversy
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2022· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Photographic History Collection: Robert Capa
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2014· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Robert Capa's Color Film
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Time: Robert Capa's Unpublished Color Photographs Debut at ICP
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2013· 1 entry
The Japanese Female Musical Theater group Takarazuka Revue produced a musical piece based on the life of Capa
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2012· 1 entry
In Takarazuka and Tokyo and in 2014 in Nagoya
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2011· 1 entry
Trisha Ziff directed a film about those images, entitled The Mexican Suitcase
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2009· 1 entry
Time: What Spain Sees in Robert Capa's Civil War Photo
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2003· 1 entry
Variety: Robert Capa: In Love and War
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1976· 3 entries
Awarded Béla Balázs Award (1976).
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Awarded International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (1976).
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Capa was posthumously inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
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1954· 4 entries
Awarded Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures (1954).
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Died 1954-05-25.
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The regiment was passing through a dangerous area under fire when Capa decided to leave his jeep and go up the road to photograph the advance
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“If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.”
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1953· 2 entries
Joined screenwriter Truman Capote and director John Huston in Italy where Capa was assigned to photograph the making of the film, Beat the Devil
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“We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with.”
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1952· 1 entry
Became the president, and held the position until his death in 1954
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1947· 4 entries
Won Medal of Freedom (1947).
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Capa traveled to the Soviet Union with his friend, the American writer John Steinbeck
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For his work recording World War II in pictures, U
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Capa founded the cooperative venture Magnum Photos in Paris with Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour, and George Rodger
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1946· 1 entry
The relationship ended in the summer of 1946 when Capa traveled to Turkey.
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1945· 2 entries
Capa captured images of a fight to secure a bridge in Leipzig, Germany
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Elaine Justin broke up with Capa; she later married Chuck Romine
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1944· 3 entries
Shows a woman whose head has been shaved as a punishment for collaboration with the Nazis
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With captions written by magazine staffers, as Capa did not provide Life with notes or a verbal description of what they showed
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Agreed that it was more likely that Capa captured 11 images in total on D-Day
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1943· 1 entry
Robert Capa was in Naples with Life reporter Will Lang Jr
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1938· 1 entry
Traveled to the Chinese city of Hankou, now within Wuhan, to document the resistance to the Japanese invasion
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1937· 1 entry
Taro died when the motor vehicle on which she was traveling (apparently standing on the footboard) collided with an out-of-control tank
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1936· 2 entries
Intending to document the Spanish Civil War
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She travelled with Capa to Spain in 1936 intending to document the Spanish Civil War.
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1934· 2 entries
He then moved to Paris and in 1934 met Gerda Pohorylle, a German Jewish refugee. "André Friedman", as he called himself then, taught Gerda photography, and together they created the name and image of "Robert Capa".
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Met Gerda Pohorylle, a German Jewish refugee
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1931· 1 entry
Just before his first photo was published, Capa was arrested by the Hungarian secret police, beaten, and jailed for his radical political activity
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-10-22.
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