Inside the Mexican Suitcase: The Spanish Civil War Negatives Lost for 68 Years

In December 2007, three small cardboard boxes reached the International Center of Photography in New York holding 126 rolls of 35mm film and roughly 4,500 negatives that had been missing since 1939. Inside was a visual record centered on the Spanish Civil War as seen by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David "Chim" Seymour, three young photographers who helped invent modern war reporting before all three of them were killed on assignment.[Read More]