The 100 years of Robert Capa

Attracted by cultural means Marxists, Friedmann had to go into exile in 1930 in Germany, where he enrolled in the Faculty of political sciences of Berlin and worked in the largest news agency in the country at the time, the "Dephot".

Two years later, with the rise of the nazis to power, was forced to leave. Addressed first to Vienna and then to Paris. In 1934, he met his first girlfriend Gerda Taro, also Jewish and a photographer. It was with her help that invented the mythical figure of the American photographer Robert Capa. Taro died three years later, hit by a tank during the Civil War of Spain, while both covered the conflict.

Years later, after having already photographed the sino-Japanese war, Cover part for the United States and begins to work for Life magazine. Passes for England and Algeria.

In the early summer of 1944 participated in Normandy, and documents the "d-day" â€" only 11 photographs resisted, baptized "The Magnificient Eleven". The cover also covered the Arab-Israeli War and alongside George Rodger, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson founded Magnum Photos.

The Hungarian photographer was present in the most important conflict in history and lived them with great intimacy. That was his beginning. "If the photos are not good enough, it's because I haven't been close enough". Will always be recognized for his most famous photograph, but also more controversial, "the death of the soldier, militiaman", which shows a soldier Republican militiaman falling at the moment it is shot during the Spanish civil war.

Robert Capa died in the Indochina war, the day May 25, 1954, to step on a land mine. His body, with his legs blown off, kept his hands trapped between one of the two chambers that he's carrying.

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