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Robert Capa
PhotographerKnown for:
war photography across five conflicts
Education:
Deutsche Hochschule für Politik, Berlin (journalism); self-taught photographer
Robert Capa covered five wars - the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War - before stepping on a landmine in Vietnam in 1954. His D-Day photographs from Omaha Beach, made under fire on June 6, 1944, were nearly destroyed in a darkroom accident; eleven surviving frames remain among the most significant photographs of the war. He co-founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947.
Robert Capa's Gear List(2)
Kodak
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Connection note
Capa shot on fast black-and-white film stock throughout his war photography career; Tri-X and its predecessors provided the speed needed for available-light combat photography.
Product description
In production since 1954, Tri-X 400 is a black-and-white film whose grain structure, broad exposure latitude, and response to push processing made it the dominant film in photojournalism and street photography for decades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
