Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Robert Capa

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." - Bob Capa.

Robert Capa [1913 - 1954] the Hungarian photographer is perhaps the best known of World War-II combat photographers. He has taken many D-Day photographs that have become classics ... Check out some of his WW-II photos ... click here ...

Some more of his photographs ... click here ...

His photogrphs of the Spanish Civil War the "most eerinly fascinating" of all war photographs ... the death of Spanish loyalist militiamen Federick Borrell Garcia, "The Falling Soldier" ... It is also a controversial photo, read more about it .... click here ...

In 1954, he agreed to supply Life with photos of escalating conflict between french and VietMinh in indochina. While attemting to go close as possible he stepped on a landmine and was killed at the age of 40.

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