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Capa, self-portrait photograph
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Robert Capa

American photographer
Also known as: Friedmann Endre Ernő
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Robert Capa (born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam) was a photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. In 1931 and 1932 Capa worked for Dephot, a German picture agency, before establishing himself in Paris, where he assumed the name Robert Capa. He first achieved fame as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War. By 1936 his mature style fully emerged in...

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