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Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Race Course, Paris

Race Course, Paris

1937
(Hungarian, 1913–1954)
Hungary
gelatin silver print
Image: 24 x 17.2 cm (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.43
© International Center for Photography
Location: not on view

Description

Best known for his war images, Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann), like most photojournalists, photographed a wide range of subjects for the weekly picture magazines. At this equestrian competition, Capa turned his camera away from the competitors to capture a spectator who, with his monocle and urbane overcoat, becomes a satirical comment on the upper crust nature of the event. The back of this print bears the stamp of a New York photo agency, one of a number of businesses that served as middle men between photographers and the picture magazines and newspapers.
  • Private Collection, New York, NY
    December 13, 2005
    (Swann Galleries, Sale 2061, New York, NY, Dec. 13, 2005, no. 391)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 151, p. 189
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Race Course, Paris|url=false|author=Robert Capa|year=1937|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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