"If your photos are not good enough, it is because you are not close enough to the gunfire." Robert Capa
Robert capa, a Hungarian, was born in Budapest in 19 13. His original name is Andre and Kappa is his pen name. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he decided to become a photographer, one of the most famous war photographers in the 20th century.
"If your photos are not good enough, it is because you are not close enough to the gunfire." This is his most famous sentence.
Kappa first became famous in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. His Death of a Warrior of the Republic captured the moment when a soldier was shot and fell, and was called the most dramatic war photo in history and an immortal work.
During World War II, he went deep into the front lines of European war zones. Capa explained his experiences and feelings with his lens, his mind, his life adventures, witnesses and records in "The European Battlefield Photographer Out of Focus". 1938, Kappa and Si Nuo, the author of Red Star over China, agreed to go to Yan 'an for an interview, but when they arrived in Xi 'an, they were blocked by the Kuomintang and Kappa failed to make it. 1944, with the United Nations troops opening up the second battlefield and participating in the Normandy landing war in northern France, he took extremely wonderful photos.