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The 73rd Volunteers for Liberty Reunion Program and Reception

Robert Capa Collection, International Center of Photography.

Brigadistas and Refugees: Crossing Borders With Capa's Mexican Suitcase

Sunday, May 31st, 2009, 2pm
The Delancey Street Screening Room
600 Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94107

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The Lincoln Vets represent a life-long commitment to international humanitarianism. Less well known is that their work on behalf of the 500,000 refugees of the Spanish Civil War helped lay the basis of refugee relief as we know it today.

In this homage to the Lincoln volunteers, we are proud to feature never before seen work by Robert Capa and David “Chim” Seymour, pioneers of modern war photography, from the “Mexican Suitcase” —three cardboard boxes containing 128 rolls Spanish Civil War images that were long thought to have been lost forever.

A little over a year ago, this “holy grail of war photography” was turned over to the International Center of Photography, which is allowing ALBA to share some of these images with you.

Join us for an afternoon of music, photography, film, and conversation to honor the enduring legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Our program features:

Oberlin College professor Sebastiaan Faber on the newly discovered Capa and Seymour photographs of the Brigadistas and refugees, refugee photos by Walter Rosenblum and rare Spanish Civil War footage (courtesy of the Rosenblum Family and Tamiment Library).

Carlos Blanco on the Refugee Experience. Blanco was born in Irún, Spain and emigrated with his family to Mexico at the end of the Spanish Civil War when he was 10. He was raised in Mexico City and came to the US for graduate study, going on to become the most influential Hispanist of his generation. He founded the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego.

Songs of the Spanish Civil War directed by Bruce Barthol.

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