Robert Capa, one of the greatest twentieth century photojournalists, who died when he stepped on a landmine in Indochina in 1954, would have been 100 years old today. Perhaps his premature demise conferred a kind of eternal youth on him, but the fact remains that sixty years after his death he is still surprising us. In 2010 an exhibit of long-lost photographic negatives of the Spanish Civil War by him and his colleagues Gerda Taro and David Seymour (Chim) opened at the International Center of Photography (ICP), where his archives reside, and to which the recovered negatives, which disappeared in 1939, were repatriated from Mexico. And today, on his birthday, ICP has revealed the acquisition of a rare radio interview in which Capa, then at the peak of his career, having covered most of the European theater of World War II at close range, discusses his work with the broadcasters Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg….

To read the whole thing (and get a link to the radio interview), go to my blog: http://amandavaill.com/Blog/Entries/2...