The Magnificent 11

The story—or, more accurately, stories—behind Robert Capa’s D-Day pictures, like his outsized life, resonate and reverberate, expand and contract, obscure and illuminate to this day. More than any others he snapped over a colourful and accomplished career, these few frames propelled Capa to immortality. Following epic adventures shooting Spain’s civil war and other battlefronts, he became forever known as the greatest combat photographer, famously saying that “if your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”

Here is the article at Legion Magazine.

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