When Robert Capa caught the face of an American soldier crawling onto Normandy beach, he captured the definitive image of D-Day and the turning of the tide of World War II.
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D-Day: Behind Robert Capa’s Photo Of Normandy Beach | 100 Photos | TIME
who was the soldier did he survive?
I just wonder if these ever so brave men had the opportunity to look into a a magic 8 ball say 65 years ahead, something tells me they’d be disappointed. God bless em all😥
Relieved i didnt see any selfies of him standing in the middle of fucking beach with a smile and giving a thumbs up.. props for originality.. im baked
Too bad that this is a fake story …
https://medium.com/exposure-magazine/alternate-history-robert-capa-on-d-day-2657f9af914?fbclid=IwAR07YAZK9jCPoY2ltHh-5qeAYrHwWfFp0-znIEe_KCep0nfmTidwWMFdPzI
He was a truly Hungarian hero.
Can you imagine walking into your death
Was the man in the picture ever identified?
I have a feeling those first rolls were purposefully demolished as it would have shown the pure carnage of the first wave. All the photos that survived were taken from the Second wave.
If your photos are not good enough. You are not close enough.
Words of Capa.
The camera truly is amazing when you stop to think about it. An object that captures a moment in time . That one moment that can never be captured the same way again.
That's sad
Sooooo….the editor gets the thumbs up and pat on the back for the photographers hard work?
It's not unclear what happened to the photos, they were melted due to the rush of trying to have them developed too quickly. Why does it say this at the end it is not known what happened to them?
Wow, lost most the film in 3 rolls. Imagine the kind of photos that must have been on it. Incredible.
I wonder what sort of pictures were lost that the world would never see.
No one will ever know and see what it was like in Normandy except for those who lived and died there. And I respect that so much and grateful we didnt have to.
What happened to all the comments?
I always wanted to see a actual video of when they are deploying this was good to thanks
Only six comments I am surprised
Hmmm we could be related?
D-Day; a very important day in history.
Did you have to add the trite shutter sound?
Fascinating slice of the history of photography/photojournalism, and of human courage. Thanks a lot for sharing this, TIME.