Robert Capa (1913 – 1954)American Soldier Landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day" (Normandy, 6 June 1944)
«Capa shot two rolls of film in just an hour and a half on the Normandy beaches on D-Day before returning to Portsmouth and sending them to the London office of Life magazine. In the rush to get them into the next issue, the 72 negatives were put in an overheated drying cabinet. All but eleven were ruined but these somewhat blurred negatives produced the most memorable photographs of the allied landing.»
Silver gelatin print, 1970, from original negative. 28 x 36 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, 2002.88
(text taken from the Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century - Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi exhibition' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 2011)
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