This collection of photographs (187 altogether) was selected by America's leading museum directors and curators for a series of exhibitions called "Photography in the Fine Arts", which took place from 1959 to 1967. It contains the work of over 130 photographers and photojournalists such as Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, Burk Uzzle and Marie Cosindas. This book encapsulates the best of their work - in photographs that epitomize an event, a personality or an era. Many of the works included have become classics. The contributors of the accompanying texts, along with Cornell Capa, are Norman Cousins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Dr Evan Turner, PFA juror and Dr Naomi Rosenblaum, the photography historian.

Master Photographs

Arts & Photography

Capa, Cornell

Photography & Video

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Photographs

Literature & Fiction

WHELAN, Richard

Capa, Robert

Poetry

Faber and Faber Ltd.

Concerned Photography

Penguin??Books

Jerusalem

Jerusalem: city of mankind,

Grossman Publishers

Robert Capa

Roman Vishniac

Cornell Capa, world famous for his photojournalism as well as for his founding of New York's International Center of Photography, has had a long and productive working life. His career has spanned several key decades of the twentieth century, and his work has taken him around the globe to cover political events and chronic social problems, to photograph the famous and the unsung. Born in Budapest in 1918, Capa moved to New York in 1937, took a job with the Pix photo agency, and soon began working in the darkroom at Life magazine. By 1946, he was a staff photographer for Life, and during the following eight years he worked on hundreds of assignments for the magazine. In 1954 - after the death of his brother Robert Capa while covering the war in French Indochina - Cornell Capa resigned from the Life staff and joined Magnum, the international cooperative photo agency that Robert had helped to found. Since 1974, Cornell Capa has been the director of ICP, one of the world's most important centers for photojournalism and the art of photography. As Capa points out in his preface to the book, the word "photography" was coined from Greek words that mean writing with light - a good description of Cornell Capa's brand of descriptive image making. Capa's photographs are not just for aesthetic consideration; they teach, challenge, entertain, support causes. In his tenure as a staff photographer at Life magazine, Cornell Capa managed to fuse his personal and professional goals so that, on deadline and in the service of journalism, he was able to make some of his most poignant and shattering images. Although he enthusiastically adopted the passionate photojournalistic style of his older brother, who is best known for his coverage of the Spanish civil war and World War II, his goal was distinct from the beginning: to be primarily a photographer of peace. As a self-described concerned photographer, Cornell Capa has always been led by his instincts to photograph people - all kinds of people - with a humanitarian commitment. This book reflects that commitment in unforgettable pictures of missionaries in Central and South America; religious and tribal rituals; the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy; political upheavals, refugees, and wars; the historic and the marginal. Here, too, are moments of whimsy and joy, from Harlem to London to Peru, and memorable images of celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Alec Guinness, Grandma Moses, Billy Graham, and Boris Pasternak. Despite the wide recognition of Cornell Capa's achievements, and the fact that he has spent his lifetime furthering the art of photography, this book is the first retrospective collection of his work to be published in the United States. All these photographs transmit crucial aspects of the political, social, cultural, and religious history of our times.

Cornell Capa: Photographs

Individual Artists

Bulfinch Pr

Robert Capa: Photographs is a major retrospective of one of the century’s greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs, we see the world through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. While previous volumes on Capa have focused on his role as a war photographer, Robert Capa: Photographs shows us the remarkable range of his work: the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects. The extraordinary book includes poignant comments by Capa’s close friend Henri Cartier-Bresson and by Cornell Capa (Robert’s younger brother and the Founding Director of the International Center of Photography), as well as a historical essay by Robert Capa biographer Richard Whelan. The dramatic collection of images in Robert Capa: Photographs shows that he captured―through the events of history―the very heart of humanity.

Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph S)

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri

Aperture

Cornell Capa the photographer has long been overshadowed by Cornell Capa the founder and director of the International Center of Photography, New York, and by Cornell Capa the brother of Robert Capa. This beautiful cloth-bound book, filled with 27 of his most intelligent, compassionate, formally striking images, promises to bring the photographer his due. He once told "Camera" magazine, "Single photographs are not what I do best. My most effective work is groups of photographs which hang together and tell stories." Nevertheless, the pictures included here sum up and transcend those stories. Imbued with the very essence of the specific situations or person that they portray, yet simultaneously resonant with universal human experience, they mark Cornell Capa as what he called a "concerned photographer," one who is passionately dedicated to doing work that will contribute to the understanding and well being of humanity. Foreword by Peter Fetterman. Introduction by Richard Whelan.  8.5 x 10 in. 27 duotone illustrations

Cornell Capa

Fetterman, Peter

Peter Fetterman Gallery

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