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DAY 183 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERSS |
Robert Capa (1913–1954)
PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE TRENCHES
Known to say, “If your picture isn’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” Robert Capa, the 20th-century combat photojournalist, took tremendous risks in the trenches to get the most powerful shots he could. He captured moment after dramatic moment in his coverage of five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the First Indochina War, and World War II, where he took his most famous shots on D-Day while swimming ashore with the second assault wave, armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50mm lenses. ...
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