Tag: Robert Capa

Spanish Civil War Trove at Center of Photography – NYTimes.com

Images of War, Finally Unpacked

“The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24suitcase.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

After all these years I’ve found some answers to my question in an exhibition called “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography. The show documents wartime life in Spain between 1936 and 1939 from an insider-outsider vantage: through the eyes of three photographers — Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour, known as Chim — who were not Spanish but who were intensely committed to what they saw as a do-or-die anti-fascist struggle.

September 24, 2010
Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time

Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time – News Photographer Magazine:

And so why do we care so? For one thing, this is the photograph that made Robert Capa, more even than in the usual figurative sense, because Robert Capa had only just been created by the young Hungarian photographer André Friedmann shortly before. From then on, Friedmann would be gone, to the point, as his Life editor John G. Morris told me, of being called Capa by his friends and even his mother in later years.

July 28, 2009
The truth is rarely so black and white

The truth is rarely so black and white | Euan Ferguson | The Observer:

Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible

July 26, 2009
Spanish Newspapers Try to Discredit Famous Capa Photo

PDNPulse: Spanish Newspapers Try to Discredit Famous Capa Photo:

The International Center of Photography recently brought its traveling Robert Capa exhibition to Spain, and the Spanish press is using the occasion to rip one of Capa’s most famous photographs to shreds.

July 23, 2009
New Photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour Are Found in a Suitcase

From NYTimes.com:

When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.

But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.

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April 30, 2009
Inside The Mexican Suitcase

From The New York Times:

Robert Capa’s “Mexican Suitcase,” actually three flimsy cardboard valises containing thousands of negatives of pictures that Capa and others took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, has now been opened.

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April 30, 2009
Robert Capa – Lost Negatives – Art – New York Times

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TO the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922.

The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom.

Capa assumed that the work had been lost during the Nazi invasion, and he died in 1954 on assignment in Vietnam still thinking so. But in 1995 word began to spread that the negatives had somehow survived, after taking a journey worthy of a John le Carré novel: Paris to Marseille and then, in the hands of a Mexican general and

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January 26, 2008