Never-Before-Seen Capa Photographs at the Capa Center

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the landing in Normandy with guided tours and screenings of never-before-seen photographs on June 5 and 6.

Hungarian-born American photojournalist Robert Capa's life's work is marked by his capture of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944. The photographer arrived on Omaha Beach with the first wave, and his iconic photographs, of which only a few survive, are among the most powerful visual records of the landing, according to a statement released by the Robert Capa Center for Contemporary Photography on Thursday.

The world's first permanent exhibition of Robert Capa's life work opened last year in Budapest, at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre.

According to the press release, the exhibition will feature a continuous screening of all the photographs from the Capa Centre's collection in Normandy in the exhibition hall, as well as several photographs that have not yet been on public display in the lobby.

Robert Capa was born Endre Friedmann in Budapest on 22 October 1913 and died on a landmine in the Indochina War on 25 May 1954. His name is among the best in the history of photography.

The war correspondent, who had seen five battlefields, made his mark in his tragically short life: his photographs of the front and the rear created a school and renewed photojournalism. He was there with the soldiers and documented what happened close to death. It was with this proximity that he recreated the genre of war photography. It is also the subject of his famous saying: 'If your pictures are not good enough, you were not close enough'.

Robert Capa continues to have a major influence on the photojournalism profession and war photography to this day. His images and work have inspired and continue to inspire generations," he said in a statement.