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Robert Capa (1913-1954)


Robert Capa (1913-1954)

Robert Capa was one of the most celebrated photographers of the mid-twentieth century and, with André Kertész, Brassaï, Martin Munkácsi, and László Moholy-Nagy, formed part of a group of influential Hungarian photographers whose impact on the medium was profound. Daring, brilliant, visionary and extremely good-looking, Capa became something of a sex-symbol in his time. He is particularly well known for his photographs of the Second World War, and for co- founding Magnum Photos.

Robert Capa was born Endre Friedman on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. He was born into a Jewish family that were co-owners of a hair-salon, and had two brothers.

When he was eighteen Friedman was exiled from Hungary, for political differences, and went to Berlin. With the support of his parents he enrolled at the German Academy for Politics to study journalism.

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