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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Celebrating Robert Capa

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The celebrated work of photographer Robert Capa, famous for capturing some of the world's most fearsome battles, who would have been 100 this week

ROBERT CAPA
Robert Capa, pictured inset, who would have been 100 this week, was there when Allied troops stormed the beach at Omaha in 1944, and witnessed the brutal civil war that ripped apart Spain for much of the later 1930s. Spanish soldiers are pictured bidding farewell to their loved ones before a military train departs for the front during the Spanish Civil War, left, while American troops are welcomed to Palermo by locals during the Second World War, right.

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