Lost Capa Photos unearthed

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From the Guardian:

Photographer Capa's lost treasure chest unearthed | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts

The lost negatives were photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War. They were left behind in a Paris darkroom after the photographer fled Europe for America in 1939. He assumed they were lost during the Nazi invasion and he died in 1954, on assignment in Vietnam, still believing that to be the case. Then, in 1995, Jerald R Green, a professor at Queens College, part of the City University of New York, received a letter from a Mexico City film-maker saying he had inherited three suitcases of negatives from his aunt and had identified the contents as Capa's masterpieces. Last week, after years of negotiations over where they should be kept, the legal title to the negatives was transferred by the film-maker, who has asked to remain anonymous, to the Capa estate.

Gotta be one of the biggest finds ever, up there with the guy who found some old Beatles lyrics in a suitcase in Victoria.

Among the negs may even be the one of the famous "Falling Soldier," (full title: "Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936") shown here for those who don't know it (SHAME!):



While it's famous, the original negative has never been found.