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Cornell Capa, 1918-2008
Born Budapest, Hungary
In his thirty years as a photojournalist, Cornell Capa aspired "to make images that educate and change the world, not just document it." Following wartime service as a photographer, he joined the staff of Life magazine in 1946, moving on to Magnum Photos in 1954. Focusing his lens on politics, he covered the Perón regime in Argentina, the Six-Day War in Israel, and the electoral campaigns of John and Robert Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Nelson Rockefeller. He also explored wide-ranging social issues, such as the destruction of indigenous Amazon cultures and Wall Street's ruthless young renegades. This portrait shows Capa with photographs he made of Bolshoi Ballet dancers in Moscow and an impoverished father and daughter in El Salvador. On the wall behind him hangs a photograph of his beloved older brother, the war photographer Robert Capa, in whose honor Capa founded the International Center of Photography in 1974.
Miriam Troop, 1999 |