Darkroom Print: The Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958 Limited Edition where he would spend his

where he would spend his teenage years in Hollywood

the photographer captured segregation and racial inequality in the country during the mid-1960s

where he continued photographing while supporting himself by working in a Japanese catering business

You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy

was part of a larger effort to promote art and the ballet in Russia

Darkroom Print: The Bolshoi Ballet School, Moscow, 1958 Limited Edition where he would spend hisIn 1958, two years after his work in Ecuador covering Operation Auca, Cornell Capa visited the USSR to provide a snapshot of Soviet Russian life. While traveling through Moscow, he photographed ballerinas at the Bolshoi Ballet School (today, Moscow State Academy of Choreography), one of the oldest and most prestigious academies of its kind in the world. The school, founded in 1773 by Catherine the Great 10 years after she established it as an