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As a photographer and war correspondent, he became one with history. After Spain, Life magazine sent him to cover the Second Sino-Japanese War and then the Second World War.
Capa will be in Sicily for the landing of the Allied troops and he will be one of the few photographers at Omaha Beach, when the Americans land in Normandy. Robert Capa founded with Henri Cartier Bresson, David Saymour, William Van- divert and George Rodger the Magnum Photographic Cooperative before leaving in 1954 for Indochina where he will die at only 40 years old on an antipersonnel mine while taking a photo.
Forgetting the weight of suffering, he made shots of an amused and tender eye on the celebrities of his time. Capa photographs his friends at the beach, in front of their works or models in the new creations of designers.
Unusual, his report on the Tour de France focuses on the spectators more than the cyclists.
© Robert Capa © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos
