Robert Capa (Documentary)

Robert Capa born in Budapest, Hunagary on October 22nd 1913.  Capa was most well known for his photography which documented on several wars.  Capa originally wanted to be a writer, but he found some photography work in Berlin and then he learned to love the art of photography.  In 1933 he moved from Germany to France because of the rise of Nazism and persecution of jewish journalists and photographers and found it hard to get freelance work.  Arounnd this time he changed his name from Endre Friedmann to Robert Capa, Capa was his nickname in school and it was more American sounding and it was similar to American film director Frank Capra.  He found it easier to sell more pictures under his new name.  Capa's first published photograph was of Leon Trotsky making a speech in Copenhagenon The Meaning of Russian Revolution in 1932.  In 1947 Capa co founded Magnum Photos in Paris with David Seymour, Henri Cartier Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert, Magnum Photos was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.  The 5 wars he photographed were the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War.  He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.

Robert Capa most famous image named 'The Falling Soldier' was captured in the Spanish Civil War.  The soldier has just been fatally shot by the enemy and is collapsing backwards  and the gun is falling out of his hand.  In the image you can see a lot of landscape even in the distance, there seems be a lot of clouds in the sky and they seem to be grey so it must have been quite a dull day.  There wouldn't of been any adding lighting because he would of wanted to capture the image in natural lighting because it not like it's a image taken  on a set it's a man doing his job in the Spanish Civil War.  Capa would of been relatively close to the soldier that had just been shot.  The picture probably was intended to be of a soldier being shot and killed, Capa probably just wanted an image of a regular soldier doing his job but just at the time he was taking the picture the soldier had been shot wish was unfortunate but it also shows what actually happens in wars and it wasn't pretty.  There isn't really any facial expression you can only see one side of his face and his eyes and mouth are closed so maybe the soldier had died on impact of the shot.  You don't see many pictures like this you either see a image of a soldier that is doing his job or that is already on the ground but he is captured an image where he has only just literally been hit by the bullet.