The D-day photos that must be seen

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Some photos must be taken, some images must be seen. These thoughts must have motivated photographer Robert Capa 75 years ago as he plunged off a landing craft and onto Omaha Beach with an early wave of the D-day landings.

He was close enough on June 6, 1944, to secure what are now known as the Magnificent Eleven,delivered from Normandy to London just a day and a half after the Allied assault on Europe began. Five of the photos — “slightly out of focus,” in Capa’s words — were published in the next issue of Life magazine, dated June 19, 1944: Battle scenes in blurred black and white; frenzied, grim.U.S. troops assault Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings.

Great photos matter. They do two things, simultaneously: zoom us in on some frozen moment, and then widen our apertures to the world in a way that transcends words alone. Often the pictures that hit us hardest depict violence. Of the 133 winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for photography, more than half — 69 — have been connected in some way to man-made conflict. Given a choice, the prize-givers honor such images because, as graphic and grisly as they may be, they are crucial to public understanding in a dangerous world.

 

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With respect: it’s been researched that Capa (& his later fans) falsely embellished his D-Day experience. Eyewitness & other evidence shows he wasn’t in an early wave, didn’t come under fire, was never reported dead etc. Good photographer, but a liar.

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