In 1995 the holy grail of photojournalism was discovered by the descendants of a Mexican General. What they had found were three cardboard boxes containing more than 4500 negatives shot by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and Davic Seymour.
The precious negatives were orginally thought to be lost in Capa's Paris studio when he fled France during the Second World War. The majority of the images were shot to document the Spanish Civil War, taken between 1936 and 1939.
Now, after negotiations with the finders of the suitcase and two painstaking years of scanning and cataloging the images will be going on display at the International Center of Photography, New York.
The exhibition will be a valuable historical record of the Spanish Civil War, but also will show how these three legends laid the foundation for modern war photography.
