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4 unusual facts about Robert Capa


Becoming Royston

The film was based on the original story “Becoming Capa” written by photographer Tay Kay Chin about the struggles of a man who wants to become war photographer Robert Capa.

Photographic Center of Skopelos

It hosted workshops and significant retrospectives of the work of photographers Robert Capa, Herbert List and Josef Koudelka, among others.

Seducing Ingrid Bergman

It dramatises the real-life affair between the actress Ingrid Bergman and the war photographer Robert Capa.

Spanish Navy Marines

Photographer Robert Capa took pictures of the Spanish Republican Navy Marines in the Battle of the Segre.


Gerti Deutsch

Morath was a photographer with the renowned Magnum Agency (founded in 1948 by George Rodger; David Seymour; Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, specialising in what became known as humanitarian photography).

Stefan Lorant

He gave advice to Life founder Henry Luce around the time of that magazine's startup in 1936, and he edited the works of many leading photographers while in Europe, including Felix Man, Kurt Hutton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Robert Capa.

The Photographers' Gallery

The Photographers Gallery was the first public gallery in London to exhibit key names in international photography, such as Juergen Teller (fashion), Robert Capa (photojournalism), Sebastiao Salgado (documentary), and Andreas Gursky(contemporary art).


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Gerda Taro

Both took news photographs, but these were sold as the work of the non-existent American photographer Robert Capa (after Frank Capra), which was a convenient name overcoming the increasing political intolerance prevailing in Europe and belonging in the lucrative American market.

Jean Vautrin

In 1987, with writer Dan Franck, he created a press photographer character with a big heart called Boro (the "model" most likely was Robert Capa).