Historic Robert Capa Negatives Found

Three boxes of long-lost Robert Capa negatives have been rediscovered and turned over the International Center of Photography. They are now being examined at the George Eastman House. The boxes also include negatives from Capa's partner, Gerda Taro, and the photographer Chim. They may help clarify some of the mysteries of Capa's career, such as the circumstances behind the Falling Soldier (aka Death of a Loyalist Militiaman). It will take months to review the approximately 3,500 negatives.

The intrepid Randy Kennedy of The New York Times has the story of the unlikely circumstances under which the negatives were recovered (Online today, and to be published in the Sunday paper):

"[D]iscoveries have already been made from the boxes — one red, one green and one beige — whose contents appear to have been carefully labeled in hand-drawn grids made by [Capa's darkroom manager Imre] Weisz or another studio assistant. Researchers have come across pictures of Hemingway and of Federico García Lorca.

"The negative for one of Chim’s most famous Spanish Civil War photographs, showing a woman cradling a baby at her breast as she gazes up toward the speaker at a mass outdoor meeting in 1936, has also been found."

Read more here.

Comments

[Giovanni DB]

I just wished Richard Whelan was still among us to see these!