Capa, Robert
(real name: Andrie Friedmann) (1913-1954) was an extremely
famous and daring photo journalist renown for his war pictures.
He was born in Hungary, but traveled widely, settling in France
and later in the United States.
He took horrifying, pictures
of the Spanish Civil War in 1933 for the French magazine Vu
starting his life-long (and eventually fatal) occupation
of recording human conflict.
During World War Two (1939-1945)
he worked for Life magazine in North
Africa, Sicily and Italy.
In 1947, with
Henri Cartier-Bresson, he
founded Magnum Photos, a sales agency
which went on to great success.
In 1948 he photographed the war
in Israel/Palestine.
He died in 1954 while recording the French
phase of the Vietnam War in French Indochina.
He demanded such
high prices for his pictures (at least for his time) that the
story circulated that he was a rich American who didn't care if
he sold his work.
Estimated basic value:
$2700
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