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Archive - The Magnificent Eleven 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 

The Magnificent Eleven is a series of photographs taken by Robert Capa, commissioned by Life Magazine, on D-Day, 6 June 1944. 

These unique images document the first wave of attack on Omaha beach in Normandy.

Of the 106 images taken by Capa, only 11 survived, due to a drying accident in the Time-Life laboratory in London. But in fact there were only ever 10 Magnificent Eleven, one negative having been immediately lost. Eighty years after the event only 8 of these photographs still have their original negative. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. American troops landing on... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. US troops assault Omaha Beach... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

Angleterre.
Robert CAPA photographer on a destroyer during the... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1945

FRANCE. Arras. 23rd March 1945. Photographer Robert CAPA with... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1945

FRANCE. Arras. 23rd March 1945. Photographer Robert CAPA before... 

Magnum Collection 1944

GB. Portsmouth. June 4, 1944. Photographer Robert CAPA days before... 
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