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Archive - Capa, Seymour and Taro Images from the Mexican Suitcase. 

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In January of 2008 the International Center of Photography announced the discovery of a cache of over 3,500 negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Magnum Photographers and Founders, Robert Capa, David Seymour and Capa's former partner Gerda Taro, three of the most significant war photographers of the twentieth century.

The negatives, created between 1936 and 1939, portray Spanish Republican soldiers, civilians in daily life and in battle and portraits of artists and writers such as Frederico Garcia Lorca and André Malraux.

The rolls were in small cardboard boxes, as well as some short strips... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1939

FRANCE. Bram. March, 1939. Line of men receiving food in an... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1939

FRANCE. Argeles-sur-Mer. March 1939. Woman and child in an internment... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. October, 1936. Dolores Ibárruri speaking before a crowd... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. Basque region. January, 1937. Bottles and glasses on a... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. Basque region. January, 1937. Man in beret. (Image from... 

David Seymour 2008

SPAIN. Gijon, Asturias. January, 1937. Destroyed typewriter after... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. January, 1937. Portrait of Asturian soldier. (Image from... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. January, 1937. Portrait of Asturian soldier. (Image from... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Crowd outside morgue after air raid.... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Air raid victim in the morgue. (Image... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Air raid victims in the morgue. (Image... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 2007

Box of Robert Capa, David Seymour and Gerda Taro negatives recovered... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. Gijon. February, 1937. Children playing in the ruins.... 

David Seymour 1937

SPAIN. Oviedo. February, 1937. Republican soldiers shoot through... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Teruel. December, 1937. Republican soldiers in destroyed... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 2008

SPAIN. December, 1937. Film leader with Robert Capa’s name and... 
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