Robert capa death

Robert Capa was a photographer and photojournalist of Jewish descent.

Robert capa war photos

His photos, like those captured during the Spanish Civil War and the Normandy assault, portray the violence of conflict with a distinctive impact. Robert Capa was born in in Budapest to Jewish parents. Like most of his student colleagues, he was actively involved in the political uproar of the time. At age 18, he was arrested due to his political activities.

While in Berlin, Capa worked as a darkroom assistant at Dephot, one of the leading photo-journalist enterprises in Germany. The agency was popular for its use of advanced cameras as well as fast film that enabled photographers to take images even in darkness. Robert was able to master the cameras and the agency gave him small photographic assignments.

His first assignment was in Copenhagen. He was sent there to photography Leon Trotsky. He found it hard to find work in France as a freelance journalist because he was from Hungary. In , Capa went to Spain to with his friend, Taro, to photograph the horrors of the Civil War that was occurring there. His image of a soldier who had been badly wounded made Capa popular.

In , Taro was murdered by a tank in Spain. She was only 26 years of age. After his companion was killed in Spain, he went to China and immigrated to the U.