European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse A photos bring out a variety of Emo on in Ftp 7980s surf once. The life and times of Robert by Beverly Bundy Magazine editor Robert Capa was Man who lived on the Edge he was almost always having financial trouble and when he was t broke he was living in London s Dou Heater i Lotel drinking t Ham Page treating friends and having nightly poker games with William Saroyan and Irwin Shaw. He never owned furniture yet All of his clothes were us loin made. He once kept the photography Syndicate in had founded afloat with earnings he won by betting on a horse. He married once a Papet affair that enabled him to gain permanent residence in the United states. When he died John Steinbeck who had once ought bitterly with him Over Money walked the streets of Paris for 1-4 hours because he was so grief stricken. Robert Capa was As much an image As the War photographs of which he was a master. Born in Hungary in 1913, he left Home at 18 and became a c Iti in of the world. I be went first to Berlin and ended up in Paris where he changed his working name from f Rno Friedmann to Robert Capa. Like Many stories about Capa especially those told by him this one has variations. The truth is probably a bit of All of them. Europe of the 1930s was Bee Omini increasingly uncomfortable Lor jews. Capa was trying to break into the photography business. I Lis new was distinctly stateless and he could represent himself to French merits As Ameri an and to american clients As French. I be c claimed the name was a combination of Robert Taylor Sand rank Capra s. When he finally did become an american Citi in in 194g, Fie legally c hanged his name to Robert . By this Lime however the world already knew him As Capa the world s greatest War photographer. Capa was to years old when i was appointed by the . Army As one of four photographers to cover the beginning of the invasion at Omaha Beach. It was the third War he had documented. He o stripes Magazine december 5, 19a5
