Robert Capa Art Prints

Robert Capa was a renowned photojournalist. He was known primarily as a war photographer, though, as his brother Cornell has said, he was really "a peace photographer" who documented ordinary people trapped in the circumstances of war. Capa was born Andre Friedmann in Budapest, Hungary. At 17, he fled Hungary after endangering himself by demonstrating against the country's dictatorship. He studied journalism in Berlin, but as Hitler rose to power, fled to Paris. There, Friedmann met a writer named Gerda Pohorylles. They changed their names to Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, and set out to document the Spanish Civil War. Capa was devastated when Taro died during combat in 1937. However, his photographs of that war established him as the premier war photographer of his time.