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Robert Capa Archive — International Center of Photography

Citation

International Center of Photography. “Robert Capa.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-04-19. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-capa

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Tier-1 institutional archive page for the Robert Capa Archive at ICP (founded by his brother Cornell Capa). Canonical reference for Robert Capa’s dates (Oct 22, 1913 Budapest – May 25, 1954 Indochina), birth name (Endre Ernő Friedmann), and co-founding of Magnum Photos in 1947.

Key excerpts / pages

  • Birth: October 22, 1913, Budapest, Hungary. (The ICP page fetched 2026-04-24 renders the name “André Friedmann”; the Hungarian original “Endre Ernő Friedmann” appears in prior scholarly sources — Whelan 1985, Hungarian-language biographies — which were NOT re-fetched in this round.)
  • Death: May 25, 1954, Thai-Binh, Indochina / Vietnam.
  • Nationality: “American (b. Hungary)” per ICP; scholarly convention “Hungarian-American” elsewhere.
  • Co-founded Magnum Photos in 1947 with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour, George Rodger, and William Vandivert (year carried from pre-existing citations; the ICP page fetched this round confirmed the co-founder role but did not itself timestamp the 1947 founding).

Notes

  • The MoMA Master Checklist for The Family of Man records Capa as “American” (per US naturalization); Richard Whelan (1985) and Bernard Lebrun / Michel Lefebvre (2011) use “Hungarian-American” in their scholarly biographies — both are named for reference but were NOT consulted in this round. Both convention-forms are recorded on pher-robert-capa: checklist form as nationality, scholarly form in notes.
  • Perspective: institutional / archival.
  • Verified against fetched source on 2026-04-24. ICP constituent page at https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/robert-capa resolved and returned biographical summary confirming Budapest birth as André Friedmann, 1913-1954 dates, death by landmine in Indochina, nationality “American (b. Hungary)”, and Magnum co-founder role with Cartier-Bresson, Chim (David Seymour), and George Rodger. Archive item count and the precise 1947 Magnum founding year were NOT re-verified against the fetched page in this round (item count shown in the UI but not captured; the 1947 year is carried from the pre-existing citation).
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