Gerda Taro

He later became a staff photographer for a German photographic agency, Dephot. He met a German photographer, Gerda Taro, that he fell in love with. She had moved to Paris for the same reasons that he did. Taro later died in a car accident. Capa would go on assignments to record daily life in the city. Robert Capa got his first break as a photographer in Berlin, Germany when he saw Hachenperg’s photos and was invited to Leon Trotsky as he lectured on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. At one point, Robert had to teach photography to pay his bills. fRobert wasn’t a saint, but his photos gave so much back to society. He photographed his subjects with great dignity, empathy, and soul. His photographs showed us the bravery of the men and women who gave their lives in a war for their country. On May 25, 1954 Robert passed away from an unplanned and unexpected event while he was out taking…

In the article “Faking Cultural Literacy”, Karl Taro Greenfeld explains how in our society we need to admit that we do not know everything, and that we should start learning more of certain topics. Greenfeld uses different stories from his life to allow the reader to connect with him and see how this problem occurs in our lives as well. Greenfeld talks about how this has become an epidemic in our society, that we would rather fake knowledge about a topic rather than admit we do not know…

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…