Hungarian war chronicler, Endre Friedmann, famously known as Robert Capa, woke up one ordinary morning in the early 1940s to three letters waiting at his doorstep. The first was from the electricity board informing him of an outstanding payment. The second came from the Department of Justice classifying him as a potential enemy alien who must attain special permits to travel and must give up his camera. The third was a letter from the editor of Collier’s Magazine, who, satisfied with his photography, offered him a special assignment in Europe with an enclosed cheque of $1,500. 

A woman amid rubble from buildings destroyed by Nationalist air raids in Spain, 1936