Soviet soldiers get their photograph taken in front of the Siegessäule, or Victory Column, in Berlin, Germany - August 1945
Photo by Robert Capa
A Republican soldier is killed while making the attempt to fix some telephone lines in northeastern Spain on the Aragon Front during the Spanish Civil War - December 1937
Photo by Robert Capa
The one and only, Robert Capa, pauses for a smoke while on assignment in Tunisia as a combat photographer and correspondent for LIFE Magazine - 1943
US paratroopers of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division land in the fields near Wesel, Germany, commencing Operation Varsity, the Allied airborne attack behind enemy lines on towns on the Rhine river occupied by German forces - 24 March 1945
Photo by Robert Capa
An American observation point on the island of Sicily near Troina - August 1943
Photo by Robert Capa
By 18 August, the German High Command estimated around 60,000 Wehrmacht troops had been evacuated via the heavily guarded port city of Messina on Sicily to mainland Italy. Around 75,000 troops of the Italian Army had also been evacuated. The evacuation of Axis forces on the island were deemed successful because the Allies were unable to gain substantial naval and air control of the Strait of Messina.
American troops enter the city of Leipzig, Germany - April 1945
Photo by Robert Capa
An M4 Sherman tank of the US Army II Corps lead by General George Patton during the Battle of El Guettar, Tunisia - March 1943
Photo by Robert Capa
Refugees in front of a destroyed building in Berlin, Germany - August 1945
Photo by Robert Capa
Happy 99th Birthday Robert Capa!
Photographed by Magnum Photos colleague and friend, George Rodger, in Naples during the Allied invasion of Italy - 1943
Robert Capa, a war correspondent and photojournalist unlike any other
Born 22 October 1913 in Budapest, Hungary, Robert Capa grew to love the art of journalism and photography. He moved to Berlin from Hungary where he began his first published works as a photographer. In 1932, he had his first set of photos published in Der Speigel capturing a speech in Denmark given by Leon Trotsky about the Russian Revolution. After leaving his home in Berlin in 1933 during the rise of Nazism, he settled in France. In 1936, he began his coverage of the Spanish Civil War which would last until 1939. In Spain, he worked with American journalist, Ernest Hemingway, to capture the war alongside the fighting Republicans against Franco’s Nationalist army. Following his time in Spain, the photographer moved onto photograph the Second Sino-Japanese War After the start of the Second World War, Capa began photographing the Allied advance in Sicily and mainland Italy. On 6 June 1944, Robert Capa shot his most famous and recognized photographs during the Allied Invasion of Normandy on Omaha Beach. From there, he moved on to photograph the 2nd Armored Division liberating Paris from Nazi occupation and eventually Operation Varsity where he parachuted with the 17th Airborne Division into Germany near the Rhine River on 24 March 1945. In 1947, Robert Capa founded Magnum Photos with other photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour and George Rodger. After the end of WWII, Capa went on the photograph the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War, where unfortunately, Capa lost his life after stepping on a landmine while working to photograph the advance of a French regiment, despite making the promise to himself to take a break from photographing a war on 25 May 1954.
Robert Capa never failed to capture the intensity and emotion in what ever situation he was involved.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Capa
Allied troops aboard a supply ship en route to Sicily prior to the commencement of Operation Husky, the July 10th invasion of the Axis-controlled island - 1943
Photo by Robert Capa
Ernest Hemingway near his vacation home in Sun Valley, Idaho. It appears he had a successful day of shooting - 1940
Photo by Robert Capa
American soldiers in Paris, the day of the city’s liberation - 25 August 1944
Photo by Robert Capa
A German soldier captured by American soldiers near Nicosia, Italy - July 1943
Photo by Robert Capa
