Russia Bolshoi Ballet: Class one takes time out to change shoes, 1958

Cornell Capa (1918 – 2008) was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Capa’s work is often considered quite eclectic, capturing moments as large of scale as wars to everyday subtle gestures of life, from the Six-Day-War to children playing in the street. Cornell Capa was drawn to photography through his brother and began making prints for him, as well as for Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour, encouraging him to become a professional photojournalist, and in 1937 he moved to New York to pursue a career publishing his first photo story in Picture Post in 1939. During World War II, Capa worked for the US Army Air Corps Photo-Intelligence Unit and the Army Air Corps’s public relations department. In 1946, he became a staff photographer at LIFE, based mainly in the American Midwest, and covered some three hundred assignments over the next three years. This print is beautifully mounted and framed in a black wood frame. Outside frame dimensions are 37 x 45 x 3.5 cm. Please allow 3-4 weeks for shipping.