Robert Capa

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Research Assessment: Robert Capa
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- Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer/photojournalist.
- Photographed wars: Spanish civil war, Second Sino-Japanese war,World War II ( from London, north Africa and Italy.) The 1948 Arab- Israeli war and the first Indochina war and the battle of Normany on Omaha Beach.
- Portrays the violence of war with unique impact.
-Used a Contax II camera mounted with a 50mm lenses with lots of rolls of film.

Some interesting photos that I like are:

" Loyalist Militaman at the moment of death,Cerro Murrano September 5 1936"
- I really like this photograph in some ways it is like an action photograph incorporating movement in the image as it meant to be of a " Falling solider ". I found that his photographs are really grainy and mostly in black and white.
- Interestingly for 30 years many professors have been trying to say that this photograph has been staged and is not a true document of war.


American soldier killed by German snipers,Leipzig,Germany, April 18, 1945