Robert Capa

Robert Capa was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. His real name was Endre Erno Friedmann. At the age of 17, he started photograph. He started to work for several photography agencies in Europe. In 1935, he takes the name Robert Capa. In 1936, while he was photographing the Spanish Civil War, his works were published in several famous magazines such as LIFE, ILLUSTRATED. Capa started his career as news photographer. During World War II, he went to Europe to photograph the war for LIFE. Also, after the war, Capa went to Israel to photograph the Jewish immigrants. in 1951, he became president of Magnum magazine. However, he went to Indochina in 1954 where he assigned to photograph, but he steps on a mine and killed.




This was in Israel in 1950, when the Jewish immigrants were coming to Israel.




This photo was took in Spain in 1936. Soon this photo became very famous because this photo was very dynamic and it's a moment when a person is dead.