Investigation: Robert Capa

He travelled to Omaha Beach with the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division
He was well known for his photography in the Spanish civil war
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."
The boatswain saw him taking a picture and thought he was being hesitant so he physically kicked him off the boat
He hid from bullets behind a disabled American tank
He was so scared that while he was taking pictures while he repeated a sentence that he had picked up during the Spanish Civil War: "Es una cosa muy seria" ("This is a very serious business").
He left as soon as he saw a boat
"I just stood up and ran toward the boat. I knew that I was running away. I tried to turn but couldn't face the beach and told myself, 'I am just going to dry my hands on that boat.'"
He used 3 rolls of film which was 106 frames/photo's
Back in London the developer was so anxious to see the photo's he dries the film to quickly which melted the emulation on all but 10 frames which gave them a blurred surreal look.

He chose to call himself Heartfield in 1916, to criticize anti-British sentiment feeling Germany during World War I.
in 1918 Heartfield joined the Berlin Dada club and the Communist Party of Germany who were against the war (WWII)
He worked for lots of communist publications as well as developing photomontage into a form of political and artistic expression
After the Nazi's came to power in Germany, Heartfield moved to Czechoslovakia, where he continued his work for a communist magazine he was working for which had to be published in exile
Heartfield's photomontages often involved Adolf Hitler and Nazi undermine their propaganda message.
Heartfield's "The Hand has 5 Fingers" was used on System of a Down's début album cover
His most famous photomontage was called 'Hurrah, die Butter ist Alle!' which means 'Hurray! the butter is gone!' makes fun of a quote from a Nazi officer who said 'Iron has always made a nation strong, butter and lard have only made the people fat'
The Swiss band Mittageisen named themselves after the picture
The band Blurt recorded a song called "Hurrah! Die Butter Ist Alle"
The band Discharge used Heartfield's work "Peace and Fascism" for the cover artwork

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