Magnum Photos

Exhibition - Robert Capa 1913-1954 

John Steinbeck once wrote that his friend Robert Capa knew that "you cannot photograph war, because it is largely an emotion." However, continued Steinbeck, "He did photograph that emotion by shooting beside it. He could show the horror of a whole people in the face of a child."

Even in the midst of war, Capa's camera recorded few corpses or atrocities. Capa was primarily concerned with the living, not with the dead. His true subject as a war photographer was the triumph of the human spirit over even the most terrible adversity, though he also made heart-rendingly compassionate images of... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

BELGIUM. Arlon, the capital of the Province of Luxembourg. 1939.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Ain Karin. 1949. A Transylvanian Jew who had spent nine... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Jerusalem. 1949. Man carrying a wooden beam over his... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Haifa. 1949-1950. Yemeni Jewish girl in a transit camp... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1954

SWITZERLAND. Klosters. 1954. William Faulkner.

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

FRANCE. Vallauris (near Antibes). August, 1948. Pablo PICASSO.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography

FRANCE. Paris.
September 2nd, 1944. Photos taken in PICASSO's... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1953

ITALY. 1953. Truman Capote holding a dog. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Paris. 1937. Members of a Laurel and Hardy fan club. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Paris. July 14th, 1936. Leon Blum, the Socialist premier... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. Near Taierchwang, Suchow front. April 1938. The Battle... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Paris. 1936. Supporters of the leftist-liberal Popular... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Saint Denis, near Paris. May 3rd, 1936. Voting in the... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. Hankou. 1938. Soong Mei-ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Paris. April, 1937. Labor leader Léon Jouhaux addressing... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. August-September, 1938. Zhou Enlai standing in front of... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. Hankou. March 12th, 1938. Actor in a propaganda play. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. Hankou. March 1938. Boy soldier. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona or its vicinity. August, 1936. Republican militiaman... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ICP 779. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

BELGIUM. Near Bastogne. December 23rd, 1944. German prisoner... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1951

GERMANY. Essen. 1951. Gen X boy, Rudolf Kesslau, former member... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

ITALY. Near Nicosia, Sicily. July-August 1943. A German soldier,... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1945

ICP 729. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1945

icp 732 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

ITALY. Sicily, near Nicosia. July, 1943. German soldier captured... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

icp 492 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1941

GB. Rhondda Valley, Wales. June 1942. Coal miners in the area... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1941

GB. London. June-July 1941.

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1941

icp 470 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1941

icp 472 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1940

USA. Sun Valley, Idaho. 1940. American writer Ernest HEMINGWAY.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

AUSTRIA. February, 1950. Carnival. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1940

USA. 1940. On a train between Memphis, Tennessee and Hot Springs,... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1954

icp 849 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

icp 419
September/October, 1937. Stillman's Gym is a famous... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 2006

SPAIN. Barcelona. August 1936. A Loyalist militia woman. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

FRANCE. Paris. May 1st, 1937. May Day celebrations. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

icp 562 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1939

SPAIN. Barcelona. January 1939. At a refugee transit center during... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1939

SPAIN. January 15th, 1939. On the road from Tarragona to Barcelona.... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. 1936. The boy is wearing a cap belonging to a... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

SPAIN. Near Fraga. November 7th, 1938. The Aragon front. A field... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

SPAIN. Les Masies. October 25th, 1938. Farewell ceremony for... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

SPAIN. Falset, near Barcelona. October 28th, 1938. Milt WOLFF,... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. US writer and journalist Ernest HEMINGWAY (right)... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

ICP 092 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1941

GB. London. June-July 1941. Mrs GIBBS, a resident of Whichcote... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. September, 1936. Woman with child fleeing Nationalist... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. August-September 1936. A Republican soldier. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Republican soldiers. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. A member of the International... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. August-September, 1936. A militiaman on a donkey near... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Murcia. February 1937. Refugees from Malaga. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Teruel. December 21st - 24th, 1937. Republican soldier... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1938

CHINA. Near Zhengzhou. June-July, 1938. Peasants rowing across... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1939

SPAIN. Barcelona. January 1939. Preparing to evacuate the city.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

UKRAINE. August 1947. Collective farm, Woman laughing. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1949

icp 765 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Near Toulouse. November, 1944. Spanish anti-fascist... 
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