- Born in Budapest in 1913
- His most famous work occurred on D-day, June 6 1944 when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras attached with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film.
- On D-Day he apparently took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion.
- A staff member at Life in London made the mistake in the darkroom of setting the dryer too high and melting the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll of the images taken ion D-Day. Only eight frames in total were recovered.
- In 1936, he became known across the globe for a photo known as the "Falling Soldier" which long falsely presumed to have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba Front of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death.
- In 2009 a Spanish professor published a book titled Shadows of Photography, in which he showed that the photograph of the "Falling Soldier" could not have been taken where, when, or how Capa and his backers have alleged.
- Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were for many decades was presumed lost but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.- While fleeing Europe in 1939, Robert Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".
- In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City filmmaker from his aunt
- In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos with, among others, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The organization was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.
Maxime Ducamp
- Born in Paris in 1822.
- After finishing college, Maxime Ducamp indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to his father's assets
- He travelled in Europe and the East between 1844 and 1845, and again between 1849 and 1851 in company with Gustave Flaubert- In 1851 he became a founder of the Revue de Paris which suppressed in 1858.
- Maxime Ducamp was also a frequent contributor to the Revue des deux mondes.
- As well as travelling and photography, Maxim Ducamp was also a writer
- He wrote Chants modernes in 1855 and aslo wrote Convictions in 1858.
- He aslo wrote Souvenirs et paysages d'orient which he wrote in 1848 as well as the book gypte, Nubie, Palestine, Syrie which he wrote in 1852. He wrote these books upon his travelling experiences.
- In 1853, he became an officer of the Legion of Honour. Serving as a volunteer with Garibaldi in his 1860 conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Maxime Ducamp recounted his experiences in Expédition des deux Siciles, a book he wrote.
- In 1870 he was nominated for the senate, but his election was frustrated by the downfall of the Empire
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