/PHOTOGRAPHERS/PHER ROBERT CAPA

Robert Capa

1913–1954 · American · 3 plates catalogued

Plates contributed

The 3 plates attributed to Robert Capa in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).

ID	Country	Section	Year	View
photo-0023	Czechoslovakia	Marriage and childbirth	—	Clervaux
photo-0118	USSR	Work	—	Clervaux
photo-0131	USSR	Work	—	Clervaux

Notes

Plate #26 (Marriage, Czechoslovakia). Checklist nationality: ‘American’ (per US naturalization); scholarly convention used by ICP, Magnum, and the Richard Whelan biography is ‘Hungarian-American’ — born Endre Ernő Friedmann in Budapest, 22 Oct 1913; killed by a land mine on 25 May 1954 near Thai-Binh, Indochina, on LIFE assignment. Magnum Photos co-founder (1947).

External biography

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-capa

Sources

src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist
src-nyt-1954-capa-obit
src-icp-capa-archive
src-magnum-photographer-bios