Momah Hugh
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Essay
22nd February, 2016
Life and Times of Robert Capa.
Robert Capa whose real name was Endre Ernõ Friedman was born on the 22nd of October, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary and died on the 25th of May 1954. Robert was a Jewish combat photographer and a photojournalist who photographed mostly wars. He photographed many popular war like the Spanish civil war, the second Sino-Japanese war, the World War II across Europe and many other popular wars which shuck the world. Capa had various contributions to the photography we all enjoy today. Capa is one of the founders of the Magnum Photos with a French photographer in the person of Henri Cartier-Bresson it was the first cooperative agency for worldwide practising photographers. …show more content…
I also chose to write about him because of him and his teams great invention of the Magnum Photos which would forever be in history. Robert Capa had left home at the age of 18 to find a future because he believed there was a little future staying in Hungary. He changed his name to Robert Capa because he believed it sounded. In 1932 he published his first work which was when Leon Trotsky making a speech. In 1936 he was in photographing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in Spain with two others Gerda Taro and David Seymour. In the year 1936, he was well known for his portrait / decisive moment of the ‘Falling Soldier’ who was shot dead. When World War II started, Capa was in New York because he was escaping Nazi persecution but had moved to Europe during this war. During this war, Capa had to move from different parts of Europe because he wanted to capture different scenes of the war he was the only ‘enemy alien’ photographer during this period. His most famous work during this time was on the 6th of June 1944 which was recorded as the ‘D-Day’ he had swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach in France where he had photographed 106 pictures which melted because of the heat in the darkroom which affected the
A00018500
Essay
22nd February, 2016
Life and Times of Robert Capa.
Robert Capa whose real name was Endre Ernõ Friedman was born on the 22nd of October, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary and died on the 25th of May 1954. Robert was a Jewish combat photographer and a photojournalist who photographed mostly wars. He photographed many popular war like the Spanish civil war, the second Sino-Japanese war, the World War II across Europe and many other popular wars which shuck the world. Capa had various contributions to the photography we all enjoy today. Capa is one of the founders of the Magnum Photos with a French photographer in the person of Henri Cartier-Bresson it was the first cooperative agency for worldwide practising photographers. …show more content…
I also chose to write about him because of him and his teams great invention of the Magnum Photos which would forever be in history. Robert Capa had left home at the age of 18 to find a future because he believed there was a little future staying in Hungary. He changed his name to Robert Capa because he believed it sounded. In 1932 he published his first work which was when Leon Trotsky making a speech. In 1936 he was in photographing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in Spain with two others Gerda Taro and David Seymour. In the year 1936, he was well known for his portrait / decisive moment of the ‘Falling Soldier’ who was shot dead. When World War II started, Capa was in New York because he was escaping Nazi persecution but had moved to Europe during this war. During this war, Capa had to move from different parts of Europe because he wanted to capture different scenes of the war he was the only ‘enemy alien’ photographer during this period. His most famous work during this time was on the 6th of June 1944 which was recorded as the ‘D-Day’ he had swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach in France where he had photographed 106 pictures which melted because of the heat in the darkroom which affected the