Award name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award

Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1969

Excerpt from the 1970 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal for 1969: CLASS 16 ANONYMOUS CZECH PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Capa Award for superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad On September 9, 1969, Look magazine published a moving photographic essay on the events in Czechoslovakia of the previous year. “A Death to Remember” told of people, who…

The Robert Capa Award 1968

AWARD DATE: 1968 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Award for Superlative Still Photography Requiring Exceptional Courage and Enterprise Abroad AWARD RECIPIENT: John Austin AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Life Magazine AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Battle That Regained and Ruined Hue” In the tradition of the great cameramen it commemorates, the Capa Award for 1968 is conferred for a…

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1967

AWARD DATE: 1967 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award AWARD RECIPIENT: David Douglas Duncan AWARD HONORED WORK: Inside the Cone of Fire – Con Thien David Douglas Duncan has come carelessly close to becoming a legend in his own lifetime, especially to his fellow photographers. The contribute contribution to Life of the pages of stark, magnificent scenes that…

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1966

Excerpt from the 1967 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1966: The Robert Capa gold medal award for superlatives still photography abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise… HENRI HUET Henri Huet of The Associated Press was chosen for the “stark beauty of his black-and-white photographs, his courage under fire – all in the best traditions…

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1965

Excerpt from the 1966 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1965: ROBERT CAPA AWARD FOR SUPERLATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY, STILL OR MOTION, REQUIRING EXCEPTIONAL COURAGE AND ENTERPRISE ABROAD…. LARRY BURROWS Larry Burrows of Life magazine has been selected for the Capa Award for the second time, a testimony to his courage and ability. “With a Brave…

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1964

  Excerpt from the 1965 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1964:   Robert Capa Award for superlative photography, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise   HORST FAAS of the Associated Press works as the late Robert Capa worked—close in where danger, death, and heart-stopping pictures lie. Faas’s brand of photo journalism earned him OPC…