I have been reading a fantastic book titled "Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers" So many of the photographers referenced Robert Capa as an influence or personal friend. In 1947, Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, and George Rodger.

His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives. Only eleven frames in total were recovered.

Recently a cache of negatives were found in Mexico from this much heralded photographer. What almost sounds like a mystery novel, Capa apparently asked his darkroom manager, a Hungarian friend and photographer named Imre Weisz, known as Cziki, to save his negatives in 1939 or 1940, when Capa was in New York and feared his work would be destroyed.

Mr. Weisz is believed to have taken the valises to Marseille, but was arrested and sent to an internment camp in Algiers. At some point the negatives ended up with General Aguilar Gonzalez, who carried them to Mexico, where he died in 1967.

This New York Times article was from January, but I had not read about this great find and thought others would find it of interest.

Here's another good read "What's in your Mexican Suitcase?"