Introduction to Robert Capa

Robert Capa (October 22, 1913 - May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American photojournalist and one of the most famous war photojournalists of the 20th century. Born into a Jewish family in Budapest during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his original name was André Friedmann. When he moved to France, he began to adopt Robert Capa's name in order to make it easier for others to remember him. In 1947, he and Bresson, the advocate of the "Decisive Moment", founded the famous Magnum Photo Agency, becoming the world's first cooperative organization of freelance photographers. On May 25, 1954, while covering the First Indo-China War in Vietnam, Capa accidentally entered a minefield, stepped on a mine, and was killed.