Cornell Capa Digital C-Type "JFK During a Campaign Event. New York City"

Item Details

Cornell Capa (Hungarian-American, 1918 – 2008)
JFK During a Campaign Event. New York City, USA. October 19, 1960., printed circa 2020
Digital Chromogenic Print
Estate stamped to the verso
Published by Magnum Photos with label to the verso

Cornell Capa, née Kornél Friedmann, was born in Budapest in 1918 to a Jewish family. He graduated from the Imre Madách Gymnasium with the intent to practice medicine, but instead followed his older brother, Hungarian-American photojournalist Robert Capa, to Paris. There he adopted his brother’s alias surname. Fleeing from the Nazi regime and Jewish persecution, Cornell Capa relocated to New York City in 1937. He worked in the Life Magazine darkroom until later being promoted to staff photographer in 1946. Much like his brother, Capa traveled the world documenting wars and political upheaval. In 1954, the same year Robert Capa died while capturing the First Indochina War, Cornell Capa joined his brother’s agency, Magnum Photos, which was co-founded with Henri Cartier-Bresson. Capa traveled the world for Magnum Photos, documenting the Israeli Six-Day War, the Soviet Union, and American politics. Although he was following in his brother’s footsteps, Cornell’s work covered a wider range of the human experience, from wars and politics to everyday scenes and the lives of children. Capa had an appreciation for the arts, and began to exhibit his work in a series called The Concerned Photographer. With the help of Micha Bar-Am, a German-Israeli photojournalist, Capa founded the International Center of Photography in New York City as an exhibition space and institution for photography. Capa served as director of the ICP for the first few years after its establishment in 1974, then continued his career as a photographer and curator until his passing in 2008.

Cornell Capa’s work was published by Magnum Photos and Life Magazine. His photographs won multiple awards and accolades including the Honor Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers (1975), the Peace and Culture Award from Sokka Gakkai International, Japan (1990), and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography from the Aperture Foundation (1999).

Condition

- no significant issues to note.

Dimensions

- measures sheet; image measures 5.5" W x 3.75" H.

Item #

ITMGD05750