International Center of Photography Museum

The International Center of Photography was born from a desire to preserve what its founder, Cornell Capa, called concerned photography. This was his term for images that did more than capture a scene; they were meant to stir the human conscience and provoke social or political change. Cornell was a noted photographer himself, but he spent much of his life as the guardian of his older brother Robert Capa’s legacy. When he established the center in nineteen seventy-four, he was acting on a deep-seated belief that powerful, documentary-style work was disappearing into private archives, hidden away from the people it was meant to influence.