In Deauville, the wars (and secrets) of photographer Robert Capa

Although succinct compared to the thousands of images Robert Capa produced, This journey of around 150 prints, documents and objectsmainly from the Golda Darty collection and the Magnum archives, contains some intriguing information. Because while paying tribute to him with fervor, the curator Michel Lefebvre, journalist and collector, was not afraid to confront the truth in revealing the backstagesometimes less shiny than we thought, of the “Robert Capa legend”…

“Capa covered five warsSpain, China, World War II, Israel, Indochina, and each time he brought back the best photos,” Michel Lefebvre first emphasizes. “He is also the origin of the modern photojournalistSeeing how his colleagues were being exploited, he immediately sought to defend the work of reporters by selling their photos directly to newspapers (and not by selling them off to an agency that would not mention their name), by keeping their prints and negatives, by controlling the captions of the published images… These ideas would lead in 1947 to the creation of l’agence Magnumof which he was one of the founders.

“The world’s greatest war photographer”