Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist, ... In 1954 was killed on assignment covering the war in Indochina by stepping on a land mine.

What: Robert Capa: A retrospective 1932-1954 Where: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. When: Aug. 1 through Sept. 26 How much: Free Andre Friedmann, known to the world as … ...

Robert Capa at the Indochina War in 1954Image: Imago/United Archives International. After World War II, Capa and his colleagues Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour (Chim) ...

Robert Capa’s life and career timeline. May 28, 2006. 1913. Oct. 22, Endre Friedmann (a.k.a Robert Capa) is born in Budapest, ... Arrives in Hanoi to cover the French Indochina war.

I’m half joking when I say that Robert Capa wasn’t a real person. He was real, of course. The London exhibit, along with many volumes written about him and his work, are proof of it.

Robert Capa, the legendary Hungarian-born photojournalist who set the prevailing standard for war photographers, spoke seven languages — none very well. He didn’t need to. For over 20 of the ...

Capa's tumultuous and all-too-brief life symbolizes the cosmopolitan and tragic Central European milieu of Budapest Jewry in the 20th century. Born Endre Ernő Friedmann to a Jewish family in the ...

Robert Capa, who would have been 100 this week, was there when Allied troops stormed the beach at Omaha in 1944, and witnessed the brutal civil war that ripped apart Spain for much of the later 1930s.

Robert Capa was co-founder of Magnum Photos, of which ATLAS Gallery is the official UK gallerist. ... the 1948 Arab-Israeli War; and the first Indochina War. In his memory, the Overseas Press Club ...

Rarely seen vintage prints by Robert Capa, the legendary and often mythologised war photographer and founder of Magnum Photo Agency, are to form the centrepiece of this year’s Photo London.

Capa, who died at 40, after stepping on a land mine in what was then French Indochina. That was a black-and-white Capa. Photojournalism in the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s was almost all in black ...