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- NAME: Robert Capa
- OCCUPATION: Photographer, Business Leader, Filmmaker
- BIRTH DATE: October 22, 1913
- DEATH DATE: May 25, 1954
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Budapest, Hungary
- PLACE OF DEATH: Thai Binh, Vietnam
- Originally: Endre Ern? Friedmann
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Hungarian combat photographer Robert Capa is best known for redefining wartime photojournalism by insisting working in trenches, in the midst of combat.
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Hungarian combat photographer Robert Capa redefined wartime journalism by joining soldiers in the trenches and documenting their battle in grim, close-up detail. His first assignment was in the Spanish Civil War. He went on to cover World War II. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War. He co-founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson. He died by stepping on a landmine.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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