Robert Capa Research Paper

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Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer, photo journalist. He was born Endre Friedmann into a Jewish family October 22, 1913 in Budapest now known as Austria Hungary. He was best known for redefining wartime photojournalism by insisting working in trenches, in the midst of combat. Capa originally wanted to be a writer but he found work as a photographer in Berlin and grew to love the art of photography. He later moved to Germany when Adolf Hitler’s rule was just beginning. He did this you keep on pursuing his newfound love of war photography. It was hard for him to be a photographer of Nazism and the was on the Jewish being one himself. He was forced to hide the fact that he was jawing in order to be able to keep taking photos and not be killed or captured by the Germans who were not only after people who were Jewish but also photographers as well. Thus he adopted the name Robert capa not only because he wanted to hide the hide the fact that he was Jewish but because capa (“shark”) was his nick mane is school. He felt that it would be easier to recognize as an American-sounding, since it was similar to a film director by the name of Frank Capra. He found it easier to sell his photos under the new "American"-sounding name. …show more content…

Robert is famous for such pictures as “The falling solider”, a photo of a solider being shot in battle. Robert capa was also w a very wise man who knew a lot about a lot in my opinion. My reasoning for this is because of his quotes witch are as follows: “if your pictures aren’t good enough you’re not close enough”, “I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life”, “the pictures are there and you just take them”, and “it’s not enough to have talent, you also have to be

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