Tag: Robert Capa
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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…
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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…
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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
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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.
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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…
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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. Check it out here via dvafoto .
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Robert Capa – Lost Negatives – Art – New York Times
: 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…