[Battle explosion, Rio Segre, Aragón front, near Fraga, Spain]

Creator

American Photographer · 1913–1954

To say that Robert Capa was one of the most courageous war photographers in history is hardly an exaggeration. Many of his images, taken under extremely dangerous conditions in the midst of ground combat, convey the chaos of battle in a way no photographer before had captured. One of Capa's most famous images, *Death of a Spanish Loyalist,* helped to define the genre of photojournalism as it has e