Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier The invention of the 35mm rangefinder camera with its 36 exposures on each roll was what forever changed the way war photographers documented war images. Instead of heavy, awkward plate cameras that could only make one exposure at a time, they were now able to capture multiple images of continuous action and image sequences. Robert Capa was originally called Endre Erno Friedmann and was born on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He left the country in 1932 after being arrested for protesting against the Hungarian government. He wanted to be a writer but instead became a photographer and during his career covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War in 1936, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the First Sino-Japanese War. 'Indochina. . In 1947 he co-founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour and George Rodger. In 1951 he became president of the company. The company, as stated by their website, "is a living archive updated daily with new works from around the world." When Hitler began his rise to power in 1933, Capa was forced to emigrate to Paris (he was Jewish), where he met his partner, romantically and professionally, Gerda Taro, also a photojournalist. He worked as a freelance photographer in Paris from 1933 to 1939, trying together with Taro to sell his photographs. Capa decided that to make his photos more desirable he would have to market them as an “established American photographer” (International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, 2013), so he and Taro came up with the name Robert Capa, “Capa meaning shark in Hungarian” , even if the plan was discovered by the edi...... in the center of the card ......these images, we can really examine the contents clearly. Capa was trying to draw attention to the conflicts that were happening around the world. He took photographs of soldiers who wanted to convey to people in their homes what the men on the front lines had to endure. Even if posed, it still represented the struggle of tens of thousands of republican soldiers who died during the Spanish Civil War. The truth will never be known as Capa took the secret to his grave and no negative of the image is known to exist. . He died on May 25, 1954 while photographing the First Indochina War for Life magazine. While under fire, Capa got out of his Jeep and moved forward. A few moments later there was a loud explosion and Capa was found with his left leg amputated: he had stepped on a mine. He died of his injuries in a small field hospital still holding his camera.