Robert Capa

Capa landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, while photographing the Normandy invasion for Life. Only a small group of the images survived, often called the "Magnificent Eleven," after a processing disaster reportedly destroyed many negatives.

The Falling Soldier is the famous Spanish Civil War image associated with Capa and first published in the 1930s. Its authenticity and exact circumstances have been debated for decades, but it remains one of the defining war photographs of the 20th century.

Capa was one of the founders of Magnum Photos in 1947, alongside photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, and George Rodger. The agency was built to give photographers more control over their negatives, assignments, and rights.

Capa died in 1954 while covering the First Indochina War. He stepped on a land mine in Vietnam, continuing the kind of frontline war photography that had defined his career since the Spanish Civil War.