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Hungarian-American photographer Cornell Capa captures daily life in Middle England from 1950 to 1952.
Photojournalist Cornell Capa brother to the famous WWII photographer Robert Capa founded New York’s International Center of Photography in 1972. In 1946, he was working as a staff photographer for Life, and over the following eight years he worked on approximately 300 assignments for the magazine. Capa said that his aim was to “write with light, to inform, to enlighten, to be fair—but ...
Cornell Capa (originally Cornell Friedmann) was born in Budapest and moved to Paris in 1936 to join his brother, Robert, who had escaped from the increasingly anti-Semitic climate of Hungary in 1930. Although he had intended to study medicine, Cornell was drawn to photography through his brother and began making prints for him, as well as for Henri Cartier-Bresson and Chim (David Seymour).
During a long and distinguished career as a photographer, Capa worked for Life magazine from 1946 to 1967, and for the Magnum Photos agency beginning in 1954, covering social and political issues in the United States, as well as England, the Soviet Union, Israel, and Central and South America. While he created some iconic individual images ...
In 1946, after serving in the US Air Force, Cornell became a Lifestaff photographer. He joined Magnum following his brother’s death in 1954. After David “Chim” Seymour’s death in Suez in 1956, Capa took over as president of Magnum, a post he held until 1960.
In 1967, the photojournalist and curator Cornell Capa curated The Concerned Photographer, which premiered in New York and traveled to Japan and Israel. This essay considers Capa’s notion of “concer...
Cornell Capa, world famous for his photojournalism as well as for his founding of New York's International Center of Photography, has had a long and productive working life. His career has spanned several key decades of the twentieth century, and his work has taken him around the globe to cover political events and chronic social problems, to photograph the famous and the unsung.
