Robert Capa (1913–1954) was a Hungarian-born war photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, famous for his fearless coverage of major 20th-century conflicts. Working mainly with 35mm cameras (especially Leica and Contax), he photographed five wars: Spanish Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War World War II (including D-Day) 1948 Arab–Israeli War First Indochina War His most iconic images include “The Falling Soldier” and his dramatic photographs from the Normandy landings. Capa’s work is bold, h

In 1939, as he fled to the United States, Robert Capa left behind in his Paris studio a collection of negatives from the Spanish Civil War. His friend, the Hungarian photographer Cziki Weisz, carried them to Bordeaux, where he entrusted them to a Chilean diplomat tasked with placing them safely in his country’s consulate. From that moment on, all trace of the negatives vanished. They would not resurface until seventy years later — in Mexico — revealing 4,500 negatives attributed not to one, but