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Robert Capa [1913-1954] American
Rank: 102
Photographer


Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist, arguably the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Capa fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college. He witnessed the rise of Hitler, which led him to move to Paris, where he changed his name and became a photojournalist. 

War, Freedom, Good, Truth



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If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. Good
101
It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
102
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
103
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture. Freedom, War
104
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. Truth
105
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
106
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on. War
107
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
108
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
109
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
110
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
111
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
112

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