Robert Capa has come home - well, not quite but the Hungarian National Museum has launched a new exhibition showing the photographic genius of Capa and going there on the first morning it was open was probably not the best idea as it was absolutely heaving with people! There ae only about 30 actual photos on display but then supported by 5 large LCD screens with constantly scrolling images from the various conflicts he covered including the Spanish Civil War, WWII (The Blitz, Operations in Tunisia, Sicily, D-Day landings and the subsequent fighting), the initial conflicts in Vietnam, the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict and various other conflicts - all of which has assured his elevation to being one of the best, if not the best, war photographer the world has ever seen.
He didn't just take photos of death and destruction and also took some wonderful portraits of some of the golden artists of the 40s and 50s like Picasso, Matisse and Ingrid Bergman, who was also his lover for a couple of years - but then he left her - Lunatic!
He was killed aged 40 in 1954 whilst on assignment for TIME when he stepped on a landmine - it is left to the imagination what he might have achieved if he had lived longer.
His legacy lives on in numerous awards as well as Magnum Photos which he founded with Henri Cartier-Bresson, amongst others - the first photo agency for freelance photographers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
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