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The Artist Project: Cornelia Parker

Artist Cornelia Parker reflects on Robert Capa's The Falling Soldier in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's almost like if you could rewind the film and a second later he'd be alive again."

Cornelia Parker reflects on Robert Capa's "The Falling Soldier" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Cornelia Parker, born in 1956, is a British sculptor and installation artist.

Installation photograph of

Cornelia Parker (British, born Cheshire 1956)

Endless Sugar, 2011

Silver-plate and tinned copper wire; 5 in. above floor and approx. 10 1/4 in. deep × 162 1/2 in. (26.03 × 412.75 cm) long when installed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Hortense and William A. Mohr Sculpture Purchase Fund, 2013 (2013.991a–dd) © Cornelia Parker


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The Falling Soldier, Robert Capa  American, born Hungary, Gelatin silver print
Robert Capa
1936, printed later