Held in Spain in Mexico discovery of previously unpublished photographs of Capa
The discovery in Mexico unpublished photographs of the famous photographer Robert Capa made during the Spanish Civil War was held here with enthusiasm.
Just released the news, the echo of the conclusion by the discovery started to get to the digital editions of newspapers, especially in Catalonia.
This is more than three thousand unpublished photographs of the Spanish Civil War that the lens of the teacher Robert Capa captured and were found in Mexico.
El Periodico de Catalunya was the first to reveal some of the photos taken by Capa in its issue this Sunday, after being discovered after more than 68 years hiding in Mexico.
The discovery was made by filmmaker Trisha Ziff, who, according to the newspaper, found just 127 rolls in three boxes.
The newspaper reported that the boxes arrived in 1940 to Mexican general Francisco Javier Aguilar Gonzalez, who then served as a diplomat in France.
Aguilar Gonzalez, told the Journal de Catalunya, fought in the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa, before embarking on a diplomatic career that took him to France, where he would with the pictures.
The filmmaker, convinced of the existence of these photos, sought for years to the descendants of Aguilar González to give the more than three thousand pictures.
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