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July 2nd, 2012

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” -Robert Capa

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. Landing of the American troops on Omaha Beach.

Photo © Robert Capa/Magnum Photos/ICP

November 27th, 2011

The Longest Day: Photo by Robert Capa, 1944

No other photograph taken on D-Day matched the great Robert Capa’s intense, jittery, “you are there” picture of American forces landing on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. Under withering German machine-gun fire, loaded down with weapons and other gear, the Allies took massive casualties — and still they pushed up the beach. With its heady mix of clarity and chaos, taken in the very thick of the battle, Capa’s is simply one of the most iconic war photographs ever made — and a mere glimpse into the savagery and courage that came to define World War II’s “longest day.”

November 15th, 2011

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Hemingway with his son Gregory, 1941.

November 14th, 2011

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Hemingway and actor Gary Cooper during a hunting trip, 1940.

November 1st, 2011

PARIS—Employees of the Galeries Lafayette department store on the rooftop terrace during a sit-in strike, June 1936.

July 25th, 2011

PLEYBEN, France—A crowd gathers in front of Mr. Pierre Cloarec’s bicycle shop to watch the owner, who is racing in the Tour de France, 1935.

FRANCE—Tour de France, 1935.

July 21st, 2011

TUNISIA—A member of the French Camel Corps, the Meharists, with his camel, 1943.

June 2nd, 2011

SPAIN—Volunteers bid farewell to the International Brigades, which the Republican government of Juan Negrin had dismissed, 1938.

May 3rd, 2011

ARRAS, France—Photographer Robert Capa with his Rolleiflex camera, before leaving to parachute into Germany with U.S. forces, March 23, 1945.