About This Image

Photographer's stamp on verso.

"Cornell Capa was born Cornell Friedmann to a Jewish family in Budapest in 1918. In 1936, he moved to Paris, where his brother Andre (Robert Capa) was working as a photojournalist. He worked as his brother’s printer until 1937, then moved to New York to join the new Pix photo agency. In 1938, he began working in the Life darkroom. "

"In 1946, after serving in the US Air Force, Cornell became a Life staff 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."

"While working for Life, Capa made the first of several Latin American trips. These continued through the 1970s and culminated in three books, among them Farewell to Eden (1964), a study of the destruction of indigenous Amazon cultures."

Capa founded the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1974. He served as its director until June 1994. Cornell Capa died in New York on May 23, 2008.

Quoted copy is from the Magnum Photos website.

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