Word: capa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-assured and suave, Capa was equally at home in the salons of Mayfair or in the waterfront saloons of Marseille. But it was on the battlefronts of World War II that Photographer Capa cut a commanding figure. Once with the 82nd Airborne Division, an admiring paratrooper who was preparing to jump turned to Capa and said seriously: "I don't like your job, pal. It's too dangerous." Near Bastogne, Capa got in front of an advancing U.S. column and was "captured" by G.I.s, suspicious of his thickly accented English. (He was freed after showing his photographer...
Salons & Saloons. Capa was born Andrè Friedmann in Hungary. At 18 he went to Germany to study sociology, started to earn his way as a part-time photographer. When Hitler came to power, Capa skied across the border into Austria, then went to Paris, where he hit upon a unique scheme to sell his pictures. He invented a famed photographer-himself. He posed as darkroom assistant for "a rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann...
Croix de Guerre. At war's end Capa's excellent war record helped him to become a U.S. citizen. With four other top photographers Capa formed Magnum Photos, a cooperative agency. Capa went to Russia with John Steinback (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), made two trips to cover the Israeli-Arab war. By choice Capa missed the Korean war. "I [am] very happy to be an unemployed war photographer," he once said, "and I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life." But a month ago, in Japan, Capa changed his mind. LIFE...
...last week, Photographer Capa, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin and Scripps-Howard's Jim Lucas set out at dawn with a French mechanized column to push deep into enemy-infested territory. Amidst exploding land mines, mortar fire and whining snipers' bullets, Capa sat in the front of the jeep, a thermos of iced tea and a jug of cognac at his side, Nikon and Contax cameras around his neck. Often the column was stopped by a volley of bullets or an exploding mine. Every time, Capa jumped out and snapped pictures as French soldiers searched for the source...
Early in the afternoon, the column was again stopped by an enemy attack. Capa jumped down, announced that he was "going up the road a little bit," and asked the others to "look for me when you get started...