who was the photo tech who ruined most of robert capa's precious d-day photos?

Answer 1

is most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 108 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives. Only eight frames in total were recovered.[3]

Although 15-year-old lab assistant named Dennis Banks was responsible for the accident, an apocryphal account (which, despite being accepted as untrue, has gained widespread currency) blames Larry Burrows, who worked in the lab not as a technician but as a "tea-boy".

Answer 2

Dennis Banks. They used to blame it on some other person (Larry Burrows?) but that was just a story that got repeated for a while before the truth came out.