“Mexican Suitcase” Unseen Spanish Civil War Capa Photos Published Online
Stalingrad O'Neill | 10.05.2009 03:01 | Culture | History | Birmingham
Thousands of previously unseen Spanish Civil War photos by legendary photojournalists Robert Capa, David “Chim” Seymour, and Gerda Taro.have digitized by The International Center of Photography
The ICP has finished an eighteen months project to scan and preserve a cache of 1930s-era negatives, A selection of images is now available on its Web site, museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/, and will be presented in exhibitions beginning next year.
The preservation effort was one of the final projects of Cornell Capa, Robert’s brother and the founder of ICP, who died in 2008.
Instrumental in getting the three cardboard boxes of negatives of some 4,300 frames into the hands of the ICP was Richard Whelan, a Capa biographer who died in 2007. Researchers have attributed about a third of the pictures to each photographer. There are also two rolls of portraits of Capa and Taro which are attributed to photographer Fred Stein.
ICP Menu: Story, Gallery, Biographies, Conservation and scanning etc
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/
New York Times
http://tinyurl.com/dzlqh8
The preservation effort was one of the final projects of Cornell Capa, Robert’s brother and the founder of ICP, who died in 2008.
Instrumental in getting the three cardboard boxes of negatives of some 4,300 frames into the hands of the ICP was Richard Whelan, a Capa biographer who died in 2007. Researchers have attributed about a third of the pictures to each photographer. There are also two rolls of portraits of Capa and Taro which are attributed to photographer Fred Stein.
ICP Menu: Story, Gallery, Biographies, Conservation and scanning etc
http://museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/ New York Times
http://tinyurl.com/dzlqh8
Stalingrad O'Neill
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