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Robert Capa

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If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.


— Robert Capa


#enough #good #pictures #you #your

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.


— Robert Capa


#enough #hungarian #talent #you

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.


— Robert Capa


#anything #around #aside #easy #except

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.


— Robert Capa


#best picture #picture #propaganda #truth #truth is

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.


— Robert Capa


#date #invasion #lana #like #miss

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.


— Robert Capa


#company #decided #first #gambler #go

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.


— Robert Capa


#hope #i #life #my life #photographer

The pictures are there, and you just take them.


— Robert Capa


#pictures #take #them #you

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.


— Robert Capa


#goes #hate #love #must #position

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.


— Robert Capa


#correspondent #hands #his #horse #last






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On 7 October 1943 Robert Capa was in Naples with Life reporter Will Lang Jr. Scholars have debated the authenticity of this photograph. The International Center of Photography organized a travelling exhibition titled This Is War: Robert Capa at Work which displayed Capa's innovations as a photojournalist in the 1930s and 1940s.

Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22 1913 – May 25 1954) was a Jewish-Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War the Second Sino-Japanese War World War II across Europe the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War. His action photographs such as those taken during the 1944 Normandy invasion uniquely portray the violence of war. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.

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