Cornell Capa

Cornell Capa ( born April 10, 1918 as Kornell Friedmann in Budapest, † 23 May, 2008 New York) was a Hungarian - American photographer. As a younger brother of the famous photographer Robert Capa, he was also called le petit Capa. With his brother he formed the so-called photojournalism. He became known photos from the Vietnam War.

Life

Cornell Capa was the youngest son of a Jewish family originating from Budapest. Like his older brother, he has long worked as a photojournalist. In 1936, Cornell began to develop negatives for Robert and for the photographer Henri Cartier -Bresson and David " Chim " Seymour in Paris. In 1937 he emigrated to America and began to work for the photo agency Pix. The following year, he joined the "Life " magazine, where he worked first as a printer. From 1941 to 1945 he was a staff photographer of "Life", and in 1946 he became employed as a solid photographer.

From 1953 he worked primarily as a freelance photographer and made numerous reports in Latin America. It was in 1954 a full member of Magnum Photos and served as vice president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. From 1956 to 1959 he was also President of Magnum.

Capa finished in 1974 his work as photographer and founded the International Center of Photography (abbreviated ICP) in New York, the longtime director he was. With the ICP it was intended to protect the estates of both his brother as the photographers David Seymour and Werner Bischof. He brought out next to numerous publications on the life and work of Robert Capa. In 1983 he was part of managing member of the Magnum Photos agency.

Cornell Capa died at the age of 90 of natural causes at his home in Manhattan.

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