Life of Kappa Photography

Kappa's masterpiece "Death of a Warrior" captures a moment when a soldier of Hehe Army just fell down after being shot. Taken on the battlefield of the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

From 1936 to 1939, Capa went to Spain and recorded the cruelty of the civil war with his camera. 1936, Capa became famous for filming the moment when a Peace Corps soldier was hit by a bullet near Cordoba (Spain). At the same time, because of its proximity and suddenness, it has caused a long-term dispute about authenticity. Many people question the authenticity of the photos, such as the posture of the soldier with a gun when he was killed, and when it was first published in VU magazine, another photo should belong to the same group, but it shows the irrationality of another different soldier lying in the same place.

Mexican suitcase, but robert capa lost his suitcase when 1939 fled the European continent. The suitcase contains 3500 negatives he took during the Spanish Civil War. For many years, people thought that these negatives disappeared forever, and the truth of "the death of soldiers" could not be confirmed. But it was discovered in Mexico City in the late1990s. It is used to hold a Mexican suitcase. At the beginning of World War II, Kappa fled from Paris to new york, where he looked for a job. Later, he was interviewed by Collier Weekly and went to the European battlefield. Later, he jumped ship and went to Life magazine. With the progress of the war, Kappa went to North Africa and Italy with the army and recorded the explosion of the post office in Naples on June 7, 1943, 10.

Kappa's most brilliant experience was his participation in the Normandy landing on June 6, 1944. On D-day, he became the only photojournalist who participated in the Normandy landing operation with the first batch of landing troops. He took two Contax II cameras, a 50mm lens and several rolls of film to Omaha Beach. In the first 30 minutes, Kappa played 106. However, when I went back to the darkroom in London to develop, the staff's mistakes destroyed most of the negatives. After some efforts, 1 1 people were rescued (two of them were on the right).

Life magazine published 19 photos in June 1944, and marked "out of focus" in the photos, indicating that kappa was too excited at that time and affected the shooting, but kappa himself denied it. Capa named his memoirs after the war. . 1947 Kappa and his friend john steinbeck (writer) visited the Soviet Union. A lot of photos were taken in Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and Stalingrad, which is full of ruins. After returning to France, Kappa established magnum photos with henri bresson, William Vandifurt, david simon and george rodger. He became chairman on 195 1.

After the founding of Israel, Kappa went to shoot and provided a lot of pictures for irwin shaw's book. 1On May 25th, 954, when Kappa was covering the first Indian-zhina war in Vietnam, he was killed because he took photos and stepped on a mine. On the same day, the major evening papers in the United States published the death of Kappa. The next day, the Daily News reported "About the Death of Kappa" with a headline, and TV stations, radio stations and times all over new york also reported in a large space, unanimously praising him as one of the bravest war photographers.