Photography; Robert Capa, David Seymour & Gerda Taro- The
Cynthia Young (ed) - The Mexican Suitcase, 2 parts - Göttingen, Steidl / New York, International Center of Photography, - Softcovers in paper slipcase - Weight 3,4 kg. Language: English Part 1: The History - 431 pp - 30 x 25 x 1,2cm.Part 2: The Film - 160 pp - 30 x 25 x 3,7 cm.Condition: very goodSend with 'track and trace' and registered outside NL.¶ Sometimes, even in the world of photography, miracles happen. On 19 December , three battered, commonplace cardboard boxes arrived at the International Center of Photography in New York. Within these boxes the so-called: Mexican Suitcase, was a treasure trove of photographic history believed lost since World War II: the legendary Spanish Civil War negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour (known as Chim). The Mexican Suitcase contained 126 rolls of film, mostly shot between May and spring , that are an inestimable record of innovative war photography and of a definitive episode in Spanish history. Read More