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Robert Capa was a photographer and photojournalist of Jewish descent. He is best known for photographing and documenting parts of WW2 in North Africa, England, and Italy. His photos, like those captured during the Spanish Civil War and the 1944 Normandy assault, portray the violence of conflict with a distinctive impact.

Early Life

Robert Capa was born in 1913 in Budapest to Jewish parents. Like most of his student colleagues, he was actively involved in the political uproar of the time. At age 18, he was arrested due to his political activities. He was then released through his father’s intervention but was banished from Hungary. He relocated to Germany in 1931 where he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik.

Capa’s Career Years

While in Berlin, Capa worked as a darkroom assi Robert capa biografia!