Can we really look war in the eye? In the tranquility of the Franciscan rooms of Deauville, Robert Capa – often labeled as the greatest war photographer in the world – reveals himself in all the richness of his work, well beyond the battlefields. Capa, who lived through the horrors of five major conflicts, from the torn Spain of 1936 to the tragic Indochina of 1954, tells his story here through some one hundred and fifty period documents, original prints, newspapers, books and personal objects .

Faced with his Leica camera, his typewriter or even his driving license, the key to getting to hot news sites, we follow the reporter at the heart of his greatest photos. Here, this moving photograph of a militiaman falling during the Spanish Civil War in 1936; there, a radiant smile on a Normandy beach the day after the war; Robert Capa goes beyond photojournalism to give us moments of history, captured in his darkest hours as well as in his moments of grace.

DID YOU KNOW ?
Robert Capa is one of the rare photographers to have parachuted onto Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. Many years later, Steven Spielberg admitted to having been inspired by the photos taken that day to shoot the landing scene for the film Saving Private Ryan.

THE FRANCISCAINS
Until October 13, 2024
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