Magnum Editions: The Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow, 1958 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) community centers

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he weathered a huge amount of personal scandal throughout his career

means distancing oneself from photojournalism that decontextualized reality

The juxtaposition of animal and city—unexpected yet strangely harmonious—captures Morath’s eye for the absurd within the everyday

Magnum Editions: The Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow, 1958 Size:8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.5 cm) community centersDuring a long and distinguished career as a photographer, Cornell Capa spent two decades covering social justice and politics for Life Magazine until 1967, exploring these themes across the U. S and beyond. Capa joined Magnum, the collective his brother Robert had founded, in 1954. He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1958, creating a series of photographs that provide a snapshot of life in Soviet Russia, ranging from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy to