Widely considered one of the greatest war photographers of all time, Robert Capa was born Endre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913. Settling in Paris in 1933, he invented the ‘famous’ American photographer Robert Capa and began to sell his prints under that name. Capa’s coverage of the Spanish Civil War won him international fame and his picture of a loyalist soldier at the instant of death became a powerful symbol for war. Capa went on to extensively cover World War II, including the landing at Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy. In 1947, he co-founded Magnum Photos. Capa died when he stepped on a landmine while photographing for Life in Indochina in 1954. He was 40 years old.