When I began the research for my biography of Robert Capa, in 1980, one problem I inherited was that of dealing with an allegation of fakery regarding Capa’s 1936 photograph of a Spanish Republican ...

It’s a rare picture that encompasses an era; even the most justly famous photographs seldom manage the feat. Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day in Times Square,” for instance, perfectly illustrated the rapturous ...

In 1947, two years after WWII ended, four war photographers founded Magnum Photos. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour had each reported on the atrocities and ...

The Carlos Capa gang, named after the alias of its late leader, Deiber Johan González, is one of the longest-running megabandas in Valles del Tuy, a strategic region south of Caracas in Miranda state, ...

Oct. 22, Endre Friedmann (a.k.a Robert Capa) is born in Budapest, Hungary to Deszo Friedmann and Julianna Henrietta Berkovitz. As a result of the American stock market crash, the Friedmanns suffer ...

The story behind Robert Capa’s iconic shot of a soldier in the surf at Normandy, one of the most celebrated pictures of the Second World War, is nearly as complex as it is incredible. In 1944, Capa, ...