Robert Capa (Endre Friedmann)
Photojournalism during Wartime
Capturing the action as it happens in the middle of conflict.
Above: Robert Capa's famous photograph of a soldier in action during the Spanish Civil War. Capa was one of the first photojournalists who was able to use the new smaller and portable cameras. During the American Civil War in the 1860's cameras were large and cumbersome with large glass plates (the type Ansel Adams used in National Parks)
Capa arrived with the troops in Normandy, France during the famous WWII invasion at Omaha Beach where many soldiers died. He died by standing on a landmine years later.