1930-1970
Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a war photographer that experienced the horrors of war by joining soldiers in the trenches and documenting their battle in grim, close-up detail.
Robert Capa and his companion , Gerda Taro, made several trips to spain to document the civil war. It was there that he took his most famous image, Death of a Loyalist Soldier or "The Falling Soldier"
“The Falling Soldier” By Robert Capa
Capa moved to America when World War II began. he was a war correspondent, traveling with the US Army and documenting Allied victories in North Africa for LIFE and Collier's.
Capa joined David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and George Rodger in founding Magnum after the war. Magnum is a a cooperative photography agency providing pictures to international publications.
Robert Capa
A darkroom technician dried capas photos too quickly and ended up melting almost all of his photos from the terrible D-Day landing in the Normandy beach landings, only 11 photos could be recovered.
Robert Capa traveled to Hanoi to photograph the French war in Indochina however shortly after his arrival, he sadly stepped on a landmine and was killed.