Finding a long lost
Mexican Suitcase in itself is exciting enough. Even when you don't have any idea what a Mexican Suitcase is. The name alone is already exciting enough. Even if it were filled with old socks it would probably still be exciting.
But this Mexican Suitcase is not filled with socks. It's filled with lost work by perhaps the most famous war photographer of all time.
And then, as if that weren't thrilling enough, the lost negatives may put to rest one of the biggest controversies in the history of photography -- whether Capa's famous photo above, taken during the Spanish Civil War, was staged or not. Known as “The Falling Soldier,” it shows a Spanish Republican militiaman on a hillside near Córdoba in 1936 at what appears to be the very instant a bullet strikes him.
The negatives are currently being analyzed at
The International Center of Photography, an institution founded by Robert's brother. If they find a negative in the original sequence showing all the images taken before and after the shot, it could end the debate
Mozart said, "When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer — say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them." And, "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
