Robert Capa
Hungarian-American · 1913–1954
War photographer and Magnum co-founder whose visceral images from five wars defined the courage and danger of conflict photography.
Wikipedia ↗“The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.”
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“It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.”
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“I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.”
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“The war correspondent has his stake — his life — in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.”
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“Like people, a photograph can be dishonest; and like people, it can be something that you trust.”
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“In a war you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.”
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“I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.”
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On his decision to photograph the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach.
“No fifty-year-old guy should be a war correspondent. That is a young man's trade.”
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“If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.”
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