Robert Capa was a famous war photographer known for documenting major events of the 20th century including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the D-Day landings. Some of his most iconic photos include images of American soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day. Capa was born in Hungary in 1913 and died in 1954 after stepping on a landmine in Indochina while following a French regiment. He co-founded the Magnum photography cooperative and was dedicated to using his camera to capture the human faces and emotions of war.

1. Robert Capa
By: Jason and Mary

2. Who is he?!
Took this photograph of Taro during the battle of
Brunete in 1936.
An American fighter pilot in Tunisia, April 1943.
Taro was killed in Madrid on July 25, 1937.
The swastikas under the cockpit showed
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/ how many enemy planes the pilot had shot
reporters/capa/photo1.html down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
U.S. soldiers plan the final details of the D-Day.
http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/capa.html
-Born: October 22, 1913 at born Ernest Andrei Friedmann in Budapest.
-Death: May 25, 1954, he died while following a French regiment at the Indochina War.
• & he didn't pay attention to where he was going, & he ended up stepping on a landmine.
-He was the most famous war photographer.
-Career began in the 1930s, he became a small time photographer.
-He was a citizen of Greater Nazi Germany.
-Capa also was one of the founders of the Magnum photography cooperative.
• Magnum photography-The Magnum cooperative has included photojournalists from across
the world

3. What did he do?!
http://evansklar.blogspot.com/2009/05/
memorial-day.html
American soldiers searching for mines
in the region of St Lo, Normandy, June 1944.
Chartres, France, August
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Capa_Robert.html
18th, 1944
this French woman
who had had a baby with a
German soldier has her
He covered the Spanish civil war, the Japanese invasion of China, head shaved as
punishment.
World War II, London, North Africa, Italy, D-Day on Omaha Beach.
His most famous work was taken June 6th, 1944 at the D-Day Normandy Invasion,
and he was never armed.
"Kamikaze Cappa" was a song written in 1986 as a tribute to Robert Capa.

4. When did he do it?!
Robert Capa, Wounded
Soldier Walking to
Wesel, Germany on March 24, 1945. Hospital, 1938
Paratroopers of the U.S. 1st Airborne
http://bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/
2009/03/robert-capa-and-gerda-taro-do-
men-and.html
German soldiers, D-Day in June 1944
20th Century photographer.
June 6th, 1944 was the date of his most famous shot.

5. Where did he do it?!
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Omaha Beach
Europe during
World War Two
Spain 1936-1939
1943-1944
During the Spanish
Civil War.

6. Why did he do it?!
http://rosenblumtv.files.wordpress.com/ http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/
2008/03/capa_beach.jpg 2008/01/24/arts/27kenn.05.jpg
I could not find his inspiration online, but based
on his work I assume that his aim was to capture
the emotion behind the men, and women, at
war.

7. How did he do it?!
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/
2008/01/24/arts/27kenn.07.jpg
Two soldiers hide from gun
fire.
Robert Capa always followed soldiers into war armed with nothing but his camera.
Robert Capa believed that it was all about being in the right place at the right time
and he always seemed to be there.

8. The End?!