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 are n't good enough , you 're not close enough . " 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 '' ( USA ) . 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 . " In 1947 , for his work recording World War II in pictures , U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded Capa the Medal of Freedom Citation 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
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Robert Capa