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 specifics they portray, yet simultaneously resonant with universal human experience, they mark Cornell Capa as what he called "a concerned photographer."

Born in Budapest in 1918, Cornell Capa moved to New York in 1937. He was a staff photographer for LIFE in the 1940s and 50s, after which he joined the Magnum agency. He founded the International Center of Photography (ICP) in 1974, in New York, where he still lives.

"During the course of his life, Cornell Capa has had three major and interrelated careers: (1) as a photographer who worked extensively for Life magazine and who has long been a member of the influential Magnum agency; (2) as the champion and editor of his brother Robert Capa's work; and (3) as the founder and director of the International Center of Photography in New York."-from the introduction by Richard Whelan.
Cornell Capa has had a truly amazing career. As the champion of his brother Robert's work, he deserves undying gratitude; as the founder and director of the International Center of Photography in New York he has undoubtedly brought the power of photography to millions of people. A consummate photojournalist in his own right, Capa has worked for Life magazine during its heyday and is a member of the Magnum Agency. This clothbound exhibition catalogue presents a finely printed selection of his best work.