Sweden. A suitcase containing three boxes of rolls of photographic negatives, including photographs taken by Gerda Taro (Gerda Pohorylle), Robert Capa (André Freidmann), and Chim (David Seymer), is found. It had been lost since 1939. It contains photos of the Spanish Civil War by three photographers who revolutionized the art of photography. The suitcase had been in a closet in Mexico for half a century, until, upon the death of the closet’s owners, it ended up in the hands of Mexican filmmaker Benjamin Tarver. When (in 1995) he realized what he had in his hands, he informed a professor in New York, who contacted the Int’l Center of Photography, founded by Robert Capa’s brother, Cornell Capa. Negotiations between Cornell and Tarver lasted several years, but the rolls eventually reached the museum. They are still held at the ICP in New York.
