Capa in Color exhibition opens in Budapest

Budapest, June 8 (MTI) – An exhibition presenting more than 100 colour images by renowned Hungarian war photographer and photo journalist Robert Capa for the first time in Europe opened in Budapest on Monday.

It is less known that Capa started to use colour film soon after it was developed in 1936. But since he faced difficulty in selling colour images during World War Two, he used colour film again only after 1946, Curator Cynthia Young said, opening the exhibition in the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre.

The original colours of the images have been digitally restored, she added.

Several images show WWII sites in Britain, Tunisia and Italy, and a couple of last images Capa took of the French Indochina War.

The exhibition also presents portraits of famous personalities such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Ingmar Bergman and Roberto Rossellini.

Robert Capa was one of the many magnificent people who found a new home in the United States after leaving Hungary, the US ambassador said at the event.

Capa’s person symbolises US-Hungarian cultural relations to the extent that both nations are proud of him and regard his works as their own intellectual legacy, Colleen Bell said.

The Capa in Color exhibition is running until September 20.

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