• Author

  Cornell Capa

• Title

  Young recruits march next to the Winter Canal

• Year

  1958

• Medium, material

  Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

• 29.4 cm X 20.3 cm

Cornell Capa (1918–2008) – one of most famous international photographers, founders and directors of the International Center of Photography. Since 1954 he worked for Magnum photography agency co-founded in 1947 by his brother Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chim (David Seymour), and George Rodger. Over the next twenty years, Capa photographed many important stories for Magnum.

Photography “Young recruits march next to the Winter Canal” (Leningrad, 1958) from the cycle produced in USSR in 1958. Author & Magnum agency stamps, negative number and annotations on reverse.