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(October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954)
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
Robert Capa (1944)
Capa was born to the Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on October 22, 1913. His mother was a native of Nagykapos (Slovakia) and his father came from the Transylvanian (Romania).
At the age of 18, he was accused of alleged communist sympathies and was forced to flee Hungary.
He moved to Berlin where he enrolled at Berlin University where he worked part-time as a darkroom assistant for income and then became a staff photographer for the German photographic agency, Dephot.
It was during that period that the Nazi Party came into power, which made Capa, a Jew, decide to leave Germany and move to Paris.
Capa's first published photograph was of Leon Trotsky making a speech in Copenhagen on "The Meaning of the Russian Revolution" in 1932.
Spanish Civil War, 1936
From 1936 to 1939, Capa worked in Spain, photographing the Spanish Civil War, along with Gerda Taro, his companion and professional photography partner, and David Seymour.
Capa accompanied then journalist and author Ernest Hemingway to photograph the war, which Hemingway would later describe in his novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
In the early 1950s, Capa travelled to Japan for an exhibition associated with Magnum Photos. While there, Life magazine asked him to go on assignment to Southeast Asia, where the French had been fighting for eight years in the First Indochina War. Although he had claimed a few years earlier that he was finished with war, Capa accepted the job.
He accompanied a French regiment located in Thái Bình Province. On 25 May 1954, the regiment was passing through a dangerous area under fire when Capa decided to leave his jeep and go up the road to photograph the advance. Capa was killed when he stepped on a land mine near the road.
(1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937)
was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Taro was the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa.A significant amount of what is credited as Robert Capa's early work was actually made by Taro.
When Gerda moved to Paris in 1934 to escape the anti-Semitism of Hitler's Germany she met the photojournalist Robert Capa, a Hungarian Jew, learned photography and became his personal assistant. They fell in love. Talo began to work for Alliance Photo as a picture editor.
Taro's career was brief, but with great impact on photojournalism, especially in war.
.When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Taro travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to cover the events with Capa and David Seymour.
Their early war photographs are distinguishable since Taro used a Rollei camera while Capa used a Contax camera or a Leica camera. However, for some time in 1937 they each produced similar 35 mm pictures under the label of Capa&Taro.
She became publicly related to the circle of anti-fascist European and intellectuals (such as Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell) who crusaded particularly for the Spanish Republic.
During her coverage of the Republican army retreat at the Battle of Brunete, Taro hopped onto the runningboard of General Walter's car that was carrying wounded soldiers. A Republican tank crashed into its side and Taro suffered critical wounds, dying the following day, 26 July 1937.
Due to her political commitment, Taro had become a respected anti-fascist figure. On 1 August 1937, on what would have been her 27th birthday, the French Communist Party gave her a grand funeral in Paris, drawing tens of thousands of people on to the streets, buried her at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and commissioned Alberto Giacometti to create a monument for her grave.