3413 x 5120 px | 28,9 x 43,3 cm | 11,4 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
15. September 2012
Weitere Informationen:
Robert Capa Memorial , Bayeux. Normandy , France.Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann;[1] October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian war photographer, photojournalist 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 B Probably his most famous images, The Magnificent Eleven, are a group of photos of D-Day. Taking part in the Allied invasion, Capa was with the first wave of American troops on Omaha Beach. The men storming Omaha Beach faced some of the heaviest resistance from German troops inside the bunkers of the Atlantikwall. While under constant fire, Capa took 106 pictures, all but eleven were destroyed in a photo lab accident back in Londoneach and the liberation of Paris. In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers. Capa was killed by a landmine on 25th May 1954 whilst covering the First Indochina War.
