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Cornell Capa

Cornell Capa was born in Budapest in 1918 and has lived in New York since 1937. He was a photographer on the staff of Life magazine from 1946 until May 1954, when his brother, Robert Capa, was killed by a landmine in Indochina. Cornell then joined Magnum Photos, the agency which his brother had co-founded. During his Magnum years, he travelled to the Soviet Union and covered the Israeli Six-Day War, but his most extensive projects focused on politics and poverty in Latin America, on social issues in the United States, and on American presidential politics from Adlai Stevenson to Barry Goldwater. In 1974 he founded the International Center of Photography, in New York, and served as its director for twenty years. Since his retirement, in 1994, he has worked on numerous books and exhibitions, and he remains one of the photographic community’s most respected elder statesmen.