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Cornell Capa

06;Cornell Capa (1918-2008) chose the phrase "concerned photographer" to describe those photographers who demonstrated in their work a humanitarian impulse to use pictures to educate and change the world, not just to record it. During a long and distinguished career as a photographer, Capa worked for Life magazine from 1946 to 1967, and for the Magnum Photos agency beginning in 1954, covering social and political issues in the United States, as well as England, the Soviet Union, Israel, and Central and South America. While he created some iconic individual images, Capa more fully established his own specific areas of concern regarding politics and social issues with incisive and important photo-essays. Included in the show are his stories on the reform government of President Arbenz in Guatemala (1953); the collapse of Juan Perón's dictatorial regime in Argentina (1955); political dissidents arrested after the assassination of Nicaraguan dictator, Anastasio Somoza (1956); the work of missionaries in Ecuador (1956-58); the plight of indigenous tribes in the north-east of Peru (1961); a significant reportage on conditions at Attica (1972) following the bloody prison uprising; the 1964 senate race of Robert Kennedy; and an analysis of poverty and population in El Salvador and Honduras (1970-73). This exhibition looks at these pioneering stories and serves as a tribute to Capa as photographer and Founding Director of ICP.
164 Items
  • [Two Amahuaca clearing the jungle with fire for farming, Peru]
  • [Santos Carion Silvano, a bilingual Campa Indian, teaching Amahuaca, Peru]
  • [Trader and Amahuaca with rifles, Peru
  • [Three Amahuaca in corn storage hut, Peru]
  • [Betty Elliot, her daughter Valerie, Mintaka and several families all share communal room, Tiwaenu River, Ecuador]
  • [Betty Elliot on couch at home with Eugenia, Shandia, Ecuador]
  • [Mintaka and Valerie laughing, Tiwaenu River, Ecuador]
  • [Betty Elliot teaching Auca while daughter Valerie draws at her feet, Shandia, Ecuador]
  • [Activist priest, José Inocencio "Chenco" Alas, hears confession while two girls look on, El Salvador]
  • [Three men pushing John Deere machine, Honduras]
  • [Maria de Los Angeles making her nightly home from boxes on the street, San Salvador]
  • [Juan Lopez and family in their Sitraterco union-supported new home, Honduras]
  • [Jimin Nashi and Vaznoncain watch while Pensitimba sharpens his pencil, Peru]
  • [Mucash fishing with bow and arrow, Peru]
  • [Betty Elliot with Mintaka and Mankamu, Tiwaenu River, Ecuador]
  • [Watching family planning instructional film at Las Crucitas clinic, Tegucigalpa, Honduras]
  • [Women holding babies at Las Crucitas clinic, Tegucigalpa, Honduras]
  • [Workers demonstrate for labor reform, La Paz, Bolivia]
  • [Pilgrims in church, Andacollo, Chile]
  • [Woman looking at boy sleeping in box on street, San Salvador]
  • [Barefoot young boy talking to man, San Salvador]
  • [Woman and child at clinic, El Salvador]
  • [Man on scooter carrying coffin, northeastern Brazil]
  • [University students protesting U.S.-owned banana companies, San Salvador]
  • [Migrant workers jumping into work truck, Honduras]
  • [Women listening to account of expedition that located the bodies of their missionary husbands, Shell Mera, Ecuador]
  • [Woman in curlers in front of "Hello Bobby" sign, Jamestown, New York]
  • [Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the Senate, Elmira, New York]
  • [Robert F. Kennedy on board a plane to Albany]
  • [Inmates playing chess from prison cells, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York]
  • [Two men walking around prison courtyard, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York]
  • [Lock and keys, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York]
  • [Robert F. Kennedy waving to supporters, New York]
  • [Prisoners escorted from one area to another, Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York]
  • [Police officer dusting confetti off head of Robert F. Kennedy, Catskill, New York]
  • [Carlos Manuel Pellecer, union organizer, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Peasants listen to land distribution speech, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Peasant with patched pants listening to land distribution speech, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Peasants picking type of animal to receive under animal distribution program, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Dock workers leaving at lunch time, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Dock workers loading bananas for United Fruit Company, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Union sign "Against foreign intervention" near banana loading depot of United Fruit Company, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [Carlos Manuel Pellecer speaks to coffee workers, Puerto Barrios, Guatemala]
  • [The goose-stepping troops of Juan Perón's dictatorial regime out in honor of San Martin, Argentina's liberator, Buenos Aires]
  • [Portrait of Eva Perón being hoisted before rally at which Juan Perón announced and withdrew his resignation, Buenos Aires]
  • [Peronistas wait for Juan Perón in Plaza de Maya, Buenos Aires]
  • [Minor C.G.T. union officials march toward Plaza de Maya in support of Juan Perón, Buenos Aires]
  • [Man reading La Prensa on crowded ladder on wheels, Buenos Aires]
  • [Supporters of Juan Perón perched on lamppost during rally, Buenos Aires]
  • [Supporters of Juan Perón perched on lamppost with Eva Perón pictures during rally, Buenos Aires]
  • [Images of Juan Perón burned by students, Buenos Aires]
  • [Cheering the arrival of rebellious Argentine naval troops who would complete overthrow of Juan Perón, Buenos Aires]
  • [Political dissidents arrested after the assassination of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Managua, Nicaragua]
  • [Prison after shooting, Managua, Nicaragua]
  • [Anastasio and Luis Somoza after the assassination of their father, Nicaragua]
  • [John F. Kennedy's shadow while he gives a campaign speech]
  • [John F. Kennedy campaigning in Wisconsin before the April 5th primary]
  • [John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail]
  • [John F. Kennedy speaking with a supporter on the campaign trail]
  • [John F. Kennedy on the capaign trail]
  • Political advertisement
  • [John F. Kennedy giving a campaign speech]
  • The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, site of the Democratic National Convention
  • [John F. Kennedy's sister Patricia Lawford, sisters-in-law Ethel Kennedy and Joan Kennedy, and family friend K. Lemoyne (Lem) Billings, Los Angeles]
  • [John F. Kennedy's sisters Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver at the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles]
  • [John F. Kennedy debating for the Texas delegation, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles]
  • [Robert and Ethel Kennedy with their children at the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles]
  • [Joe Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Eunice Shriver, and Kathleen Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles]
  • [Rose Kennedy, Los Angeles]
  • [John F. Kennedy making brief remarks after winning the Democratic nomination, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles]
  • [John F. Kennedy campaigning in Michigan]
  • [John F. Kennedy campaigning in Michigan]
  • [John F. Kennedy supporters, Michigan]
  • [John F. Kennedy campaigning in Spokane Washington]
  • [John F. Kennedy campaigning in Spokane, Washington]
  • [John F. Kennedy shaking hands, Michigan]
  • [John F. Kennedy speaking to voters from the back of his campaign train in California]
  • [John F. Kennedy waving to supporters from the back of his campaign train, Richmond, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy supporters lining the train route near Marysville, California]
  • [Supporters cheering John F. Kennedy's campaign train, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy supporters near Merced, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy supporters near Fresno, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy autographing a scrapbook, near Fresno, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy on his campaign train, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy on his campaign train, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy on his campaign train]
  • [John F. Kennedy riding in a convertible on Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood, after his whistle-stop train tour through California]
  • [John F. Kennedy supporters]
  • [John F. Kennedy giving a campaign speech]
  • [John F. Kennedy reaching into a crowd of supporters, North Hollywood, California]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [John F. Kennedy giving a speech on the steps of City Hall, New York City]
  • [Man with John F. Kennedy campaign hats, New York City]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [Igor Stravinsky, Venice]
  • [The fourth and last of the Kennedy-Nixon debates (held in New York City), as seen on the television of a bar, New York]
  • [Billy Graham, New York]
  • [Election day at the Democratic Party election-day headquarters, Biltmore Hotel, New York]
  • Tammany Hall leader Carmine DeSapio on the telephone at Democratic Party election-day headquarters, Biltmore Hotel, New York
  • [An elderly woman living with her son and daughter-in-law, Philadelphia]
  • [New York Citizens for Kennedy and Johnson election night dinner, Astor Hotel, New York]
  • [An elderly woman living with her son and daughter-in-law, Philadelphia]
  • [Crowd on John F. Kennedy's Inauguration Day, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Funeral procession for Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Harlem, New York]
  • [Crowd on John F. Kennedy's Inauguration Day, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Misfits, Nevada]
  • [Float on John F. Kennedy's Inauguration Day, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Folk painter Grandma Moses with her great-granddaughter, Eagle Bridge, New York]
  • [President Kennedy and William Walton, artist and Kennedy family friend, the White House, Washington, D.C.]
  • [A contestant at an archery match in the Forest of Arden, Warwickshire, England]
  • [President Kennedy before his administration's first cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Spectators at an archery match in the Forest of Arden, Warwickshire, England]
  • [President Kennedy and members of his cabinet at a cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C]
  • [President Kennedy speaking with General Lauris Norstad at a cabinet meeting]
  • [Spring in Hyde Park, London]
  • Vice President Lyndon Johnson, President Kennedy, and Bureau of the Budget Director David Bell at the second cabinet meeting
  • [Alec Guinness in his dressing room, London]
  • [John F. Kennedy during a cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy during a cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy during a cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy at a cabinet meeting, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Advisors briefing John F. Kennedy before a meeting with West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk speaking with German officials, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, New York]
  • [John F. Kennedy speaking in a televised press conference on the situation in Laos, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy sitting in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C.]
  • [Jacqueline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., on the grounds of the White House, Washington, D.C.]
  • [John F. Kennedy reaching into a crowd of supporters, North Hollywood, California]
  • [Jacqueline Kennedy and French President Charles de Gaulle, Versailles, France]
  • [John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, campaigning in New York]
  • [Jacqueline Kennedy, French President Charles de Gaulle, and John F. Kennedy, Versailles, France]
  • [Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy, Versailles, France]
  • [John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy at a banquet in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, France]
  • [John F. Kennedy greeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev emerging from a car outside the American Embassy, Vienna]
  • [Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy speaking outside the Soviet Embassy, Vienna]
  • [Robert F. Kennedy campaigning for the Senate, Elmira, New York]
  • [Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy meeting at the Soviet Embassy, Vienna]
  • [Russian Orthodox nuns and priest, Zagorsk, the former Soviet Union]
  • [Nina Khrushchev, wife of the Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev, in the Pallavicini Palace, Vienna]
  • [Russian Orthodox service, Moscow]
  • [Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev and Jacqueline Kennedy at Schoenbrunn Castle, Vienna]
  • [A Russian Orthodox nun sewing in a convent, Zagorsky, the former Soviet Union]
  • [In the cathedral, Zagorsky, the former Soviet Union]
  • [Boris Pasternak at his country house in Peredelkino, the former Soviet Union]
  • [Boris Pasternak at his country house in Peredelkino, the former Soviet Union]
  • [Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow]
  • [Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow]
  • [Hebrew lesson, Brooklyn, New York]
  • [Israeli antiaircraft unit during early morning prayers, in the midst of the Six-Day War, Sinai Desert]
  • [Egyptian soldiers captured by the Israelis, El Qantara, on the east shore of the Suez Canal]
  • [At a state institution for the mentally retarded, Letchworth Village, Thiells, New York]
  • [Amahuaca children, Peru]
  • [Amahuaca Indians clearing the jungle for farming, Peru]
  • [A Campa Indian named Santos with a young student, Peru]
  • [Supporters of Juan Peron, Buenos Aires, Argentina]
  • [Cheering the arrival of rebellious Argentine naval troops, who would complete the overthrow of Peron, Buenos Aires, Argentina]
  • [In the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil, the infant mortality rate was so high that children's graves were dug in advance]
  • [El Salvador]
  • [El Salvador]
  • [El Salvador]
  • [Man with his ill daughter, El Salvador]