Robert Capa
Robert Capa
Robert Capawas a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist and also the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taró. He covered five 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. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth22 October 1913
CountryUnited States of America
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
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.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.
What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?