A visitor looks at “Capa in Color” exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York. Capa in Color is the first full assessment of color photographs by famous US photographer Robert Capa and will run from January 31 to May 4. — AFP

 

NEW YORK — Robert Capa was one of the world’s most renowned photographers covering 20th century war and politics, and a new exhibition showcases his dazzling work in color, much of it forgotten.



A Hungarian who studied in Berlin and fled the Nazis in 1933, Capa shot to fame with his coverage of the Spanish civil war and World War II. Most of his iconic war pictures were shot in black-and-white film.



Capa was killed when he stepped on a landmine at the end of the French Indochina war in 1954, but between conflicts he traveled around the world taking color photographs of everyday situations and of his celebrity friends.



The exhibition that opened on Friday at the International Center of Photography in New York includes pictures of Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Truman Capote, Orson Welles and other stars.



His friends allowed Capa to photograph what would have otherwise been private moments: for example, there is a picture of Pablo Picasso with his family on the beach in the south of France, and another of writer Ernest Hemingway at home in Sun Valley, Idaho. — AFP