Rediscovered Capa Photos Published Online

The International Center of Photography has digitized thousands of previously unseen Spanish Civil War photos by legendary photojournalists Robert Capa, David “Chim” Seymour, and Gerda Taro.

Eighteen months after obtaining a cache of 1930s-era negatives, the ICP has finished a project to scan and preserve the images. A selection of images is available on a Web site, museum.icp.org/mexican_suitcase/, and will be presented in exhibitions beginning next year.

The preservation effort was one of the final projects of Cornell Capa, Robert’s brother and the founder of ICP, who died in 2008. Also instrumental in getting the negatives into the hands of ICP was Richard Whelan, a Capa biographer who died in 2007. View the images.