Robert Capa

Robert Capa

The story of a Hungarian immigrant

His original name was Endre Erno Friedmann,

he was a Hungarian photographer.

He took pictures of five different

wars.

He started photography as a hobby, and just later became a professional.

He got his first

commission from the Vu magazine, in

1934.

Ingrid Bergman was one of his

lovers.

While reporting from the Spanish civil war he took his most famous

picture, the Falling Soldier.

He took pictures of the soldiers reaching the shore of Normandy, but these valuable photos were ruined later.

He named his autobiography

after this event: „Slightly out of focus” – My memories from the war.

The Life magazine sent

him to Indochina on the grounds of reporting the

French Conquest.

He passed over a mine and died there, on the 25th of May in 1954.

As he said: „If your pictures aren’t good enough, you didn’t go close

enough.”