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Robert Capa
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American photographer (1913–1954)
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Robert Capa, born Friedmann Endre Ernő in Budapest, was a male war correspondent, photographer, photojournalist, and journalist. He held citizenship in France, Hungary, and the United States. Capa participated in the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and the First Indochina War. His notable work includes *The Falling Soldier*. He was influenced by Ernest Hemingway and inspired by the Castle of Sperlinga in Sperlinga.
Capa worked in Vienna, Paris, and Sperlinga. He spoke English and Hungarian. He was an unmarried partner of Gerda Taro. He received the Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures, the Béla Balázs Award, and the Medal of Freedom. He participated in Documenta 6.
Capa died on May 25, 1954, in Thái Bình. His manner of death was accidental.
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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
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Thái Bình
- Sibling
- Cornell Capa
- Employer
- Life
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Judaism
- Genre
- figurative art
- Movement
- French Realism
- Conflict
- Allied invasion of Sicily
- Military branch
- photojournalism
- Image
- War photographer Robert Capa during the Chinese-Japanese war, RP-F-2012-140 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- New York City
- Significant event
- Allied invasion of Sicily
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- Commons category
- Robert Capa
- unmarried partner
- Gerda Taro
- date of birth
- 1913-10-22
- date of death
- 1954-05-25
- birth name
- Friedmann Endre Ernő
- manner of death
- accidental death
- influenced by
- Ernest Hemingway
- inspired by
- Sperlinga
- cause of death
- explosion
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- different from
- Frank Capra
- 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
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- 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)
Untitled
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Robert Capa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.