The Mexican Suitcase is a ground breaking exhibition revealing the most famous group of recovered negatives of the twentieth century. The exhibition will be at The International Center of Photography in New York USA from September 24th 2010 until January 9th 2011.
Considered lost since 1939, the so-called Mexican Suitcase is in point of fact three boxes containing 4,500 negatives documenting The Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour) and Gerda Tard. There are also several rolls of portraits of Capa and Taro by Fred Stein. Besides offering new images by these major photographers that provide a comprehensive overview of the war, the cache of negatives also includes previously unknown portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Dolores Ibarruri (known as “La Passionaria”)