Editing Robert Capa (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Lápida de Robert Capa (cropped).jpg|thumb|Monument to Robert Capa's death in Normandy, France]]

The government of Hungary issued a postage stamp in Capa's honor in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=December 3, 2018|title=Magyar Posta Ltd. – 2013|url=https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/archive_2013|website=Magyar Posta Zrt.}}</ref> That same year it issued a 5,000-forint ($20) gold coin, also in his honor, showing an engraving of Capa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coin-currency.com/media/Hungary/CAPA-.jpg|title=Photo of Hungarian gold coin dedicated to Capa|website=coin-currency.com|access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref>

His younger brother, [[Cornell Capa]], also a photographer, worked to preserve and promote Robert's legacy as well as develop his own identity and style. He founded the International Fund for Concerned Photography in 1966. To give this collection a permanent home, he founded the [[International Center of Photography]] in New York City in 1974. This was one of the foremost and most extensive conservation efforts on photography to be developed. Indeed, Capa and his brother believed strongly in the importance of photography and its preservation, much like film would later be perceived and duly treated in a similar way. The [[Overseas Press Club]] created the [[Robert Capa Gold Medal]] in the photographer's honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/archive/byaward/award_capa.php|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20071105202454/http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/archive/byaward/award_capa.php|url-status=dead|title=''Overseas Press Club of America'', Awards Archive.|archivedate=November 5, 2007}}</ref>

Capa is known for redefining wartime photojournalism. His work came from the trenches as opposed to the more arms-length perspective that was the precedent. He was famed for saying, "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14YQNW&nm=Robert%20Capa|title=Robert Capa|publisher=Magnum Photos|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415032813/http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R14YQNW&nm=Robert%20Capa |archive-date=April 15, 2012}}</ref>

He is credited with coining the term [[Generation X]]. He used it as a title for a photo-essay about the young people reaching adulthood immediately after the Second World War. It was published in 1953 in ''[[Picture Post]]'' (UK) and ''[[Holiday (magazine)|Holiday]]'' (US). Capa said, "We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with."<ref name=Ulrich>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v10ZUR_Ca3EC&pg=PA3 |title=GenXegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth |chapter=Introduction: A (Sub)cultural Genealogy |author=Ulrich, John |editor=Andrea L. Harris |pages=3 |isbn=9780879728625 |date=November 1, 2003|publisher=Popular Press }}</ref>

In 1947, for his work recording World War II in pictures, U.S. general [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] awarded Capa the [[Medal of Freedom (1945)|Medal of Freedom]] Citation<ref name=vanity/><ref name=washpost>[[George Stevens Jr.]], [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/09/29/robert-capa-a-photographer-at-war/309792cf-fc13-4392-b03a-4c879609255a/ "Robert Capa: A Photographer at War"], ''Washington Post'', September 29, 1985</ref> The [[International Center of Photography]] organized a travelling exhibition titled ''This Is War: Robert Capa at Work'', which displayed Capa's innovations as a photojournalist in the 1930s and 1940s. It includes vintage prints, contact sheets, caption sheets, handwritten observations, personal letters and original magazine layouts from the [[Spanish Civil War]], the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and [[World War II]]. The exhibition appeared at the [[Barbican Art Gallery]], the International Center of Photography of Milan, and the [[Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya]] in the fall of 2009, before moving to the Nederlands Fotomuseum from October 10, 2009, until January 10, 2010.<ref>[http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3569587/k.3EA4/This_Is_War_Robert_Capa_at_Work.htm Travelling exhibitions: ''This Is War! Robert Capa at Work''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504004602/http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3569587/k.3EA4/This_Is_War_Robert_Capa_at_Work.htm |date=May 4, 2009 }}, International Center of Photography</ref>

In 1976 Capa was posthumously inducted into the [[International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum]].<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Capastraße.jpg|thumb|A street in Leipzig named after Capa]]
[[File:Robert Capa emléktáblája Budapest Városház utca 10.jpg|thumb|Commemorative plaque for Capa in Budapest]]