More than 70 years, thousands of images made by photojournalist Robert Capa have been written off has lost forever. Even Capa, at the time of his death in 1954, believed that more than 3,000 ihis images made during the Spanish Civil War were destroyed after he fled Europe in 1939 at the start of World War II. The New York Times is reporting that three cardboard valises containing the negatives were recently returned from a family in Mexico.
The discovery is great news for historians of photography and for the Capa family. Over the years, many questions about Capa's work in Spain in the 1930s remained a mystery. It is hoped that the found images will help historians piece together a formative part of Capa's life.