[Marxism] "New" photographs of the Spanish Civil War by Capa and others released

[Jon Flanders]

New Works by Photography’s Old Masters
By RANDY KENNEDY
When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and
cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International
Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a
conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful
of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.

But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being
almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of
unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives
taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish
Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but
resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.

What the center’s scholars have found among the 126 rolls over the last
several months are a number of previously unknown shots by Capa, one of
the founders of the Magnum photo agency and a pioneering war
photographer, and by Taro, his professional partner and companion, who
died in 1937 when she was struck by a tank near the front, west of
Madrid. But more surprising has been the wealth of new work by Seymour,
known as Chim, that was in the cases. Another of Magnum’s founders, he
was known not for his battle photography but for penetrating
documentation of Spanish life in the shadow of war.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/design/30capa.html?_r=1&ref=arts