Robert Capa

Known for: war photography across five conflicts

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.