On June 6, 1944, an assault barge landed Robert Capa on Omaha Beach. Stumbling ashore under heavy fire, he exposed four rolls of the most famous films in history. As luck would have it, all but eleven frames were ruined in Life’s London darkroom when the emulsion ran in an over-heated drying cabinet. However, Life, and the world press, published the surviving images, calling them "slightly out of focus" from the blurred emulsion. And Capa maintained his dangerous franchise as the most colorful war photographer.
This is a picture of the giant reproduction of one of the surviving shots, printed on the wall nearby the entrance of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (東京都写真美術館), near Ebisu (恵比寿).
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