Veteran US photographer Cornell Capa dies aged 90

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PARIS (AFP) — US photography pioneer Cornell Capa, the younger brother of legendary war snapper Robert Capa, died on Friday in New York at the age of 90, the Magnum photojournalism agency announced.

Hungarian-born Capa first moved to Paris to join his brother in 1936 before settling in the United States a year later where his career took off.

Starting off in the dark room at Life magazine in New York, Capa became a staff photographer at the age of 28, by which time he had also become an American citizen.

It was after his brother's tragic death in a Vietnam landmine blast in 1954, that Cornell joined the Magnum photo agency. His brother had co-founded the cooperative alongside the legendary Henri Cartier-Bresson and others in 1947.

In 1974, Cornell...