Photo Presentation

Mr. Capa preparing to jump into Germany, 1945

As I mentioned earlier, my four-person group in the history portion of class decided to do our presentation on Robert Capa. It's tonight in class, so we're pretty much all prepared. He's most famous for photographing the landing at Normandy. He went in with the First Wave with Company E at Omaha Beach. The lab technician dried the negatives at too high a temperature, causing the image to partially melt. He was in a hurry for the press services.

"The pictures are there, and you just take them." - R. Capa

After taking 11 pictures while on the beach, Mr. Capa left in a landing craft.
"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not get executed for it, is his torture." -R. Capa

Wow. I could not imagine. As Mr. Ambrose so clearly described in his book D-Day, being with the first wave on Omaha Beach was not very plesant.

Jp