NEGATIVE LOST CAPA

 

Shots from the Spanish Civil War battle of Rio Segre were made from the newly discovered negatives of Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. Capa assumed that the work had been lost during the Nazi invasion, and he died in 1954 on assignment in Vietnam still thinking so. But in 1995 word began to spread that the negatives had somehow survived, after taking a journey worthy of a John le Carré novel: Paris to Marseille and then, in the hands of a Mexican general and diplomat who had served under Pancho Villa, to Mexico City.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_2.html