Running for Shelter During Air Raid, Barcelona, January 1939

This gelatin-silver print is stamped and initialed by Cornell Capa. Robert Capa made many of the iconic images of the first half of the twentieth century.This image was made by the photographer in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. It is one of the iconic photographs he took during the conflict, depicting a woman and her dog running as the air raid sounds as the city was being heavily bombed by planes.

Gelatin-Silver Print
Edition of 150 and 25 Artist’s Proofs
Paper Size: 15 x 19 inches
Image Size: 9 7/8 x 15 7/16 inches
Stamped and initialed by Cornell Capa

Robert Capa (b. 1913, Budapest, Hungary; d. 1954, Thái Bình, Vietnam) was co-founder of Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was a pioneering photographer who joined soldiers in the trenches and documented the battles of the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War in grim, close-up detail.