André Friedmann, who signed his photographs with the pseudonym Robert Capa, died on May 25, 1954 when he stepped on a landmine during the Indochina war while covering a report for Life magazine. He was a renowned photojournalist who covered various international conflicts, including the Sino-Japanese war, World War II, and the first Arab-Israeli war. In his autobiography, Slightly Out of Focus, published by La Fábrica, Friedmann narrates his activity on various fronts of World War II, coverage that he carried out from 1942 until the liberation of Berlin in 1945.

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