“The war correspondent has at stake his life. It is in his own hands. He can put it on this horse or on that horse or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last gamble. I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.” —Robert Capa

Robert Capa (1913-54) focused his camera and fashioned his life in a manner that captured the best in people. His passion for living explodes through the negatives. He was not so much a photographer as he was another infantryman, fighting with his best violence against the fascism of the mid-20th century. Capa captured a world deeply in the throes of love and war. Brazen in character and gambling with his life, he landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, with the fighting men of the US Army. Having been described as “ugly,” “stark,” “immediate” and “ecstatic,” his photographs are the register of qualities within and beyond the boundary of the image. The photography of Robert Capa offers a glimpse of what it meant to be alive at that moment in the world.  LD