Steidlville

Exhibition The Mexican Suitcase - The Legendary Spanish Civil War Negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour

In late December 2007, three small cardboard boxes arrived at the International Center of Photography from Mexico City after a long and mysterious journey. These tattered boxes – the so-called Mexican Suitcase – contained the legendary Spanish Civil War negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour (known as “Chim”). Rumors had circulated for years of the survival of the negatives, which had disappeared from Capa’s Paris studio at the beginning of World War II. Together, these roles of film constitute an inestimable record of photographic innovation and war photography, but also of the great political struggle to determine the course of Spanish history and to turn back the expansion of global fascism.

Mexican Suitcase

Museu Nacional d'Arte de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
October 6, 2011–January 15, 2012


Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
February 27–June 10, 2012


Circulo de Bellas, Madrid Spain
July 15–September 30, 2012


Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
February 27–May 26, 2013