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Robert Capa
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American photographer (1913–1954)
Robert Capa was an American photographer (1913–1954) who became one of the most renowned war photographers of the twentieth century, documenting major conflicts including the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His powerful and intimate images of combat and its human consequences helped establish photography as a crucial medium for bearing witness to historical events.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1913
- Died
- 1954
- Works
- 36
Top works
- צלם של החיים
- William Faulkner
- Menschen im Krieg
- Tatslumim mi-Yiʹsra'el 1948-1950
- Capa Tur̈kiye'de
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Film & TV
Camera · Budapest, Hungary
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Known for
- Temptation — Hamza1946
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Holmestrand
- Active from
- 1913
- Active to
- 1954
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 15
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,873x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,818x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,433x
- Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso
· 1996 · cited 38,853x
- The PHQ-9
· 2001 · cited 38,236x
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- War photographer Robert Capa during the Chinese-Japanese war, RP-F-2012-140 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Robert Capa
- date of birth
- 1913-10-22
- date of death
- 1954-05-25
- birth name
- Friedmann Endre Ernő
- floruit
- 1938-01-01
- P8168
- CS
- start of work period
- 1931-01-01
- end of work period
- 1954-01-01
- name in native language
- Endre Friedmann
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Capa
Sources (9)
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Works in European collections
14 objects attributed to Robert Capa, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Ohne Titel (Blick von der Tauentzienstraße auf die Gedächtniskirche)
As World War II drew to a close...
To send their folks back home, Russian soldiers pose for pictures of themselves and Berlin's Siegessäule Victory Monument
Ohne Titel (Zerstörte Häuserfront)
Untitled (street café at Kurfürstendamm, Café Wien)
Germany: The image of defeat: Berlin 1945. In the background Russian soldiers and ruins.
Ohne Titel (Junge und drei Frauen mit Handwagen vor Ruinen)
Untitled (Allied soldiers celebrating)
Untitled (Berlin, woman with children in Trümmerstraße)
Ohne Titel (Ein russischer und ein US-Soldat beim Uhrenhandel)
Untitled (Probably liberated forced laborers in front of the Kaiser-Wilhelm National Monument, Schinkelsche Bauademie on the right)
GERMANY Women pushing wagon
Untitled (Imperial Wilhelm Memorial Church)
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Article
Robert Capa (/ˈkɑːpə/; born Endre Ernő Friedmann, Hungarian: [ˈɛndrɛ ˈɛrnøː ˈfridmɒn]; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Friedman fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager. He moved to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. He witnessed Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which led him to move to Paris. There he met and began to work with his professional partner Gerda Taro, and they began to publish their work separately. Capa's close friendship with David Seymour-Chim was captured in Martha Gellhorn's novella Two by Two. He subsequently covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the First Indochina War, with his photos published in major magazines and newspapers.