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Robert Capa

(Hungarian, 1913–1954)

Robert Capa

Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, 1944

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Robert Capa

FRANCE. Golfe-Juan. August, 1948. Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot., 1948

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Robert Capa

SPAIN. January 3rd, 1938. Aragon front. Battle of Teruel. Republican soldiers inside the Governor's Palace, the last bastion of the Fascist resistance. Earlier that day the Republicans had detonated mines powerful enough to blow away an entire wall., 1938

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Robert Capa

Spain, Aragon front, Battle of Teruel, Republican soldiers inside the Governor's Palace, the last bastion of the Fascist resistance. Earlier that day the Republicans had detonated mines powerful enough to blow away an entire wall, 1938

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Robert Capa

Spain, Near Fraga, Aragon front, Loyalist troops during an offensive along the Rio Segre., 1938

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Robert Capa

Spain, Aragon Front, Republican soldiers, 1936

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Biography

Timeline

1913: Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary
1931 - 1933: Studied Political Science, Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, Berlin, Germany
1933: Driven out of the country by the threat of a Nazi regime, he settled in Paris, France
1938: Capa travelled to China and emigrated to New York, USA a year later
1947: Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger, and William Vandivert
1954: Awarded the Croix de Guerre (War Cross) with Palm from the French Army (posthumously)
: Died while photographing for Life Magazine in Thai-Binh, Indochina, where he stepped on a landmine
1955: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established to reward exceptional professional merit

Exhibitions

2005 - 2006: Retrospective, Galerie Am Tunnel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway; Kunsthalle, Fellbach, Germany
2004 - 2005: Robert Capa connu et inconnu, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2002: Israel, Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
Slightly out of focus, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1999: Heart of Spain: Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1997: Robert Capa: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
1995: Capa's life, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
1991: Robert Capa: A Retrospective, Sala de Exposiciones de la Disputacion, Burgos, Spain; Circulo de Bella Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Children of War, Children of Peace, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1990: Capa and Capa (with Cornell Capa), Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
1985: Robert Capa: Photographs, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1976: Capa: emlèkkiàllilàs, Budapest Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
1964: Images of War, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1960: Robert Capa: War Photographs, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1952: On Picasso (with Gjon Mili), Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Literature

2001: Robert Capa Connu et Inconnu - BNF éditions, Paris, France
: Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection - Phaidon Press Ltd, UK; (La Collection) Phaidon Press, France
1999: Heart of Spain - Aperture, USA
1996 - 2001: Robert Capa: Photographs - Aperture, USA; (Robert Capa: Photographies) Editions Nathan, Paris
1991: Children of War, Children of Peace - Bulfinch Press, USA
1990: Capa & Capa: Brothers in Photography - International Center of Photography, USA
1988: Robert Capa: Photographs from Israel - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1985: Robert Capa: Photographs - Alfred A. Knopf, USA; (Robert Capa Photographe) Sylvie Messinger, France; Art&, Italy
: Robert Capa: A Biography (by Richard Whelan) - Alfred A. Knopf, USA; Mazarine, France
1974: Robert Capa 1913-1954 - Grossman Publishers, USA
1964 - 1965: Images of War - Grossman Publishers, USA; (Images de guerre) Hachette, France
1950: Report on Israel - Simon and Schuster, Inc, USA
1948: A Russian journal - Viking Press, USA
1947: Slightly Out of Focus - Henry Holt & Co, USA (reprint: Modern Library, USA, 1999; Contrasto, Italy 2002; Delpire, France 2003)
1944: Invasion! - D. Appleton Century Co, USA
1938: Death in the Making (with Gerda Taro) - Covici Friede, USA

Robert Capa

(Hungarian, 1913–1954)

Robert Capa

Robert Capa

Robert Capa

Robert Capa

Robert Capa

Robert Capa

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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