Cornell Capa
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Cornell Capa #4,693Established

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personAmerican, 1918–2008
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Selected Works43

Museum Acquisitions

13 Institutions
MoMA
MoMA
MoMA
MoMA
Met
Met
NGA Washington
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
LACMA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pompidou
Pompidou
Pompidou
Yale University Art Gallery
Rose Art Museum

Previous Sales 11

Christie's
John F. Kennedy, Campaign, 1960
John F. Kennedy, Campaign, 1960
€687 ($756 USD)
Dec 2011
Christie's
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
£1,750 ($2k USD)
Nov 2008
Christie's
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
£2,880 ($4k USD)
May 2006
Christie's
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958
£1,560 ($2k USD)
May 2005
Phillips
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow
$7,620
Los Angeles Modern Auctions
Bolshoi Ballet
Bolshoi Ballet
$953
Jul 2025
Christie's
John F. Kennedy, Washington D.C., 1961
John F. Kennedy, Washington D.C., 1961, 1989
$2,034
Dec 2023
Phillips
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow
Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow
$8,890
Oct 2023
Christie's
The Bolshoi Ballet School
The Bolshoi Ballet School, 1956
$5,040
Apr 2023
Dorotheum
Explosives in the streets during the fall of the regime of Juan Peron, Buenos Aires
Explosives in the streets during the fall of the regime of Juan Peron, Buenos Aires, 1955
Bought In
Oct 2024
Heritage Auctions · Artsy
The Bolshoi Ballet School
The Bolshoi Ballet School, 1958
Bidding closed
Gelatin silver

For Sale 4

MAX54 Gallery | The Global Fine Art · Artsy
Democratic National Convention
Democratic National Convention, 1960
Price on request
Silver gelatin print, printed later 2001
Atlas Gallery · Artsy
Russia Bolshoi Ballet: Class one takes time out to change shoes
Russia Bolshoi Ballet: Class one takes time out to change shoes, 1958
£3,000
Vintage gelatin silver print
Afterimage Gallery · Artsy
JFK, First Cabinet Meeting
JFK, First Cabinet Meeting, 1961
US$3,500
Silver gelatin
Magnum Photos · Artsy
The Bolshoi Ballet School. Practicing positions. Moscow, Russia, URSS
The Bolshoi Ballet School. Practicing positions. Moscow, Russia, URSS, 1958
Price on request
Archival pigment print
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Market51 auction results

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$756 – $8.9K
3 of 4 photographs lots with prices
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$3.9K
Object-type specific
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$5.0K
3 priced photographs lots
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Jul 2025 · $953
Latest tracked sale in this object type
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Photographs: $5.0K medianUnclassified lots: $2.0K median
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PhillipsGrisebachAste BoettoDoyle New YorkSotheby's
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Current Exhibitions0

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Chickens, train surfers and Marilyn Monroe: Magnum’s print sale – in pictures
Magnum Photos, in partnership with The Photographers' Gallery, is holding a print sale titled 'Odyssey' featuring works from over 100 of its photograp…
marketMar 24, 2026
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Past Exhibitions1

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#2,606 ATLAS Gallery

Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography

Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Mario Giacomelli, Dorothea Lange, Daido Moriyama, Steve Schapiro, Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Patrick Demarchelier, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Marc Riboud, W. Eugene Smith, Yamamoto Masao, Alexander Rodchenko, Andreas Feininger, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Tina Modotti, Jeanloup Sieff, Willy Ronis, Steve McCurry, Barry Lategan, Eve Arnold, Thomas Hoepker, Joe Rosenthal, John Dominis, David Bailey, Herbert George Ponting, Leni Riefenstahl, Alberto Korda, Lewis Morley, Rudolf Koppitz, Jürgen Schadeberg, Terence Donovan, Iain Macmillan, Cornell Capa, George Hoyningen-Huene, Harold Edgerton

49 Dorset St, London W1U 7NF, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — May 30, 2026

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Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography
Mar 27, 2026
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Chickens, train surfers and Marilyn Monroe: Magnum’s print sale – in pictures
Mar 24, 2026
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Cornell Capa dies
Jan 1, 2008
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Cornell Capa born
Jan 1, 1918
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