Robert Capa. ICONS

Robert Capa. ICONS, the largest retrospective on the photographer who changed the history of photojournalism.

Coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, the exhibition presents more than 250 original pieces, including period photographs revealed at the time by Capa himself, historical publications and personal objects from the Golda Darty Collection and the archives of the prestigious agency Magnum Photos.

Robert Capa. ICONS presents original period photographs, revealed at the time by Capa himself. These “unique” photographs, far from the usual retouched enlargements in other exhibitions, preserve the mark of their time and powerfully transmit the essence of photojournalism: urgent, direct images with all their testimonial weight.

Robert Capa is considered the most celebrated war photojournalist in history. In just two decades of his career, he covered five decisive conflicts: the Spanish Civil War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Second World War, the first Arab-Israeli war, and the Indochina War.

His name is linked to images that are part of the collective memory of the 20th century: Death of a Militiaman, a symbol of the Spanish Civil War; the harrowing scenes of the Normandy landings, taken under enemy fire on Omaha Beach; or the close-up portraits of combatants, civilians and friends that he captured with a mixture of courage and humanity.