Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist, ... In 1954 was killed on assignment covering the war in Indochina by stepping on a land mine.

Robert Capa, who would have been 100 this week, was there when Allied troops stormed the beach at Omaha in 1944, and witnessed the brutal civil war that ripped apart Spain for much of the later 1930s.

Robert Capa at the Indochina War in 1954Image: Imago/United Archives International. After World War II, Capa and his colleagues Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour (Chim) ...

What: Robert Capa: A retrospective 1932-1954 Where: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. When: Aug. 1 through Sept. 26 How much: Free Andre Friedmann, known to the world as … ...

Robert Capa’s life and career timeline. May 28, 2006. 1913. Oct. 22, Endre Friedmann (a.k.a Robert Capa) is born in Budapest, ... Arrives in Hanoi to cover the French Indochina war.

Yet for Robert Capa, born in Budapest in 1913 and now an American citizen, that courage must be found because war cannot be documented from too far away. If you want the perfect photo you have to ...

Capa's tumultuous and all-too-brief life symbolizes the cosmopolitan and tragic Central European milieu of Budapest Jewry in the 20th century. Born Endre Ernő Friedmann to a Jewish family in the ...

Next on the lineup for the center is a retrospective display of Robert Capa’s work as a man known in the press and to many as the “greatest war photographer in the world.” The center will be showing ...

In 1964 an exhibition of Capa’s photographs called Images of War was hosted by the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Museum. The exhibition included a selection of the sixty-eight photographs donated ...

Lynsey Addario began taking war pictures when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Only two-thirds of a century had elapsed since Robert Capa documented the Spanish Civil War. But to go ...