#Cornell Capa

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Cornell Capa. Hebrew lesson. Brooklyn, New York. 1955

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Savoy Ballroom. New York City. 1939

Photo: Cornell Capa

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In the Savoy Ballroom's Kat's Korner, Gladys Crowder and Eddie "Shorty" Davis do their famous Lindy Hop, 1939. The woman in the background is Mickey Jones.

Photo: Cornell Capa via Int'l Center of Photography/Magnum Photos/Village Voice

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Bonjour, bon Dimanche à tous ☕️ 🥐 🍊

Amoureux à Hyde Park Londres 🇬🇧 Angleterre 1951

Photo de Cornell Capa

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"THE BOLSHOI BALLET SCHOOL" CORNELL CAPA // 1956 [gelatin silver print | 7 x 5"]

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Cornell Capa. Annotated darkroom print of Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, Russia, USSR, 1958. Markings and notations by Pablo Inirio

[thephotoregistry]

Boys entering chapel at Winchester College, Winchester, UK, 1951

Cornell Capa

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Blue jeans, white socks and saddle oxfords | Cornell Capa, Life, 1954

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Cornell Capa

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The art of the darkroom. An aspect of teaching that I dearly miss. The Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958. Cornell Capa. Feast of San Gennaro, New York City, 1984. Bruce Gilden. New York, USA, 1998 Chien-Chi Chang. Snowstorm, New York City, 1967. Erich Hartmann.

[semioticapocalypse]

Cornell Capa. Boys entering the chapel at Winchester College. England. 1951

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Cornell Capa- Dancers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, 1939.

Shown are: Al Minns, Sandra Gibson, Mickey Jones, George Greenidge, Gladys Crowder, Eddie “Shorty” Davis, Joyce and Joe Daniels, William Downes, and Frankie Manning.

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Russia. Moscow. The Bolshoi Ballet School. Practicing positions. 1958

Photo: Cornell Capa

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A traffic jam in the city on Memorial Day weekend, 1949.

Photo: Cornell Capa for Life magazine

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Marilyn Monroe during filming of The Misfits 1960  (photo: Cornell Capa)

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(Art: Photograph by Cornell Capa)

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The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. 

~Gustave Le Bon (The Crowd: Study of the Popular Mind) :: [Philo Thoughts]