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...firing all around us: French artillery, tanks and mortars opened up, and small-arms fire clattered back from nearby villages. Red mortars and anti-personnel mines went off, curr-rump, curr-rump, along the road. It was almost certainly one of these mines that killed LIFE Photographer Robert Capa (see PRESS). Moroccan infantry quickly deployed against the villages and put an end to the shooting. At 3 p.m., the column entered Thanhne...
Photographer Robert Capa, who spoke five languages, was once asked which language he "thought" in. After mulling over the question, Capa answered: "I think in pictures." Most of the pictures Capa thought in were of war. As a LIFE staffer in World War II, Capa earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world. Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held...
...pictures Capa liked best were those that told the "whole story," like his photo of an American machine gunner the instant he was killed, or his pictures of half-drowned G.I.s crawling through the heavy surf toward the Normandy beaches. Photographer Capa was no master technician; under battle conditions his lighting and his focus were often faulty. He got his best pictures by knowing and understanding war, and by staying close to it. "If your pictures aren't good," he was fond of saying, "you aren't close enough." The late Brigadier General Teddy Roosevelt once said...
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...
...distinguished photographer, Robert Capa, once moodily declared: "Most of the people in this country take pictures, and most of them take better ones than I do." Amateur pictures have made history, e.g., the sinking of the Vestris (1928), the explosion of the Hindenburg (1937), the Hotel Winecoff fire...