Cornell Capa's photo book
Cornell Capa (b. April 14 1918, Budapest) is an American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of the late photo-journalist and war photographer,
Robert Capa.
Born as Cornell Friedmann [citation needed] in Budapest, he moved, aged 18, to Paris to work with his elder brother, Robert Capa, a noted
photo-journalist. In 1937, Cornell Capa moved to New York
City to work in the Life magazine darkroom. After serving in the
U.S. Air Force, Capa became a Life staff photographer in 1946. The many
covers that Capa shot for the magazine included portraits of television personality Jack Paar,
painter Grandma Moses, and Clark Gable.
In May 1954, Robert Capa was killed by a landmine covering the early years of the
Vietnam War. Cornell Capa joined Magnum Photos, the
photo agency co-founded by his brother, the same year. For Magnum, Capa covered the Soviet
Union, Israeli Six-Day War, and American politicians.
Beginning in 1967, Cornell Capa mounted a series of exhibits and books entitled The Concerned
Photographer. The exhibits led to his establishment in 1974 of the International Center of Photography in New
York. Capa served for many years as the director of the Center. Capa has published several collections of his photographs
including JFK for President, a series of photographs of the 1960 presidential campaign that he took for Life
magazine. Capa also produced a book documenting the first 100 days of the Kennedy presidency, with fellow Magnum photographers,
including Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliott
Erwitt.
Capa has written forewords to several collections of his brother's photographs and is known to be protective of Robert Capa's
memory and reputation. For example, when Robert Capa's famous image of a falling Spanish soldier
during the Spanish Civil War was claimed to be a fake and not taken at 'the moment of
death', Cornell Capa entered into a long battle to establish the legitimacy of the photograph, including tracking down the name
of the soldier and his date of death.
Capa's
JFK for President Book
External links
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