Robert Capa

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of the main things that tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show what emotions they might be feeling.
Despite his worldwide recognition Capa denied the title of a photographer. He always preferred to refer to himself as a photo journalist. To try to prove that he was not a photographer he hated artistic pretension in his medium and refused to learn any more photographic technique than he deemed necessary. In the darkroom he was so careless that many people wondered if he scratched his negatives purposely to try to prove his point that he was not a photographer. As for his lighting methods, he never bothered to use a flash because he preferred to take a powerful image than a technically correct one.
The dead person in the photo is an American soldier who was killed by German snipers. The picture was taken in Leipzig on April ...

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