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Cornell Capa (1918-2008)

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Cornell Capa

American, b. Hungary 1918, d. 2008

Cornell Capa was born Cornell Friedmann to a Jewish family inBudapest. In 1936 he moved to Paris, where his brother Andre (RobertCapa) was working as a photojournalist. He worked as his brother'sprinter until 1937, then moved to New York to join the new Pix photoagency. In 1938 he began working in the Life darkroom. Soon his firstphoto-story - on the New York World's Fair - was published in PicturePost.

In 1946, after serving in the US Air Force, Cornell became a Lifestaff photo- grapher. After his brother's death in 1954, he joinedMagnum, and when David 'Chim' Seymour died in Suez in 1956 Capa tookover as president of Magnum, a post he held until 1960.

Capa made an empathetic, pioneering study of mentally retardedchildren in 1954, and covered other social issues, such as old age inAmerica. He also explored his own religious tradition. While workingfor Life, Capa made the first of several Latin American trips. Thesecontinued through the 1970s and culminated in three books, among themFarewell to Eden (1964), a study of the destruction of indigenousAmazon cultures.

Capa covered the electoral campaigns of John and Robert Kennedy,Adlai Stevenson and Nelson Rockefeller, among others. His 1969 book,New Breed on Wall Street, was a landmark study of a generation ofruthless young entrepreneurs keen on making money and spending it fast.

In 1974 Capa founded New York City's influential InternationalCenter of Photography, to which for many years he dedicated much of hisconsiderable energy as its director.

Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography in New York after a long and distinguished career as a photojournalist, first on the staff of Life magazine and then as a member of Magnum Photos, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 90.






































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