On March 29, Ambassador András Simonyi presented the Commander's Cross
Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary to Cornell Capa at the Hungarian
Consulate General in New York City.
Cornell Capa is a world-known photographer and photojournalist. He was
born in 1918 in Budapest. He moved to Paris in 1935 and then to New York in
1937. Capa was the official photographer of LIFE magazine between 1947 and
1954. He is the brother of Robert Capa who was ranked one of the top
photographers in the world. Robert founded Magnum Photo Agency over which
his brother Cornell presided in the late 1950s.
As a photographer, Cornell Capa covered significant political and social
questions, including the Six-Day War in Israel, the campaigns of John F. and
Robert Kennedy, the life of the Amahuaka native Americans, and mentally
disabled children. Cornell Capa is the Founding Director Emeritus of the
International Center of Photography in New York.
Ambassador Simonyi with the honoree, Cornell Capa
