If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough

... said Robert Capa, who is probably the first guy to embody the cliché of the photographer as adventurer akin to Hemingway's image of writer/adventurer.

Theres an interesting NYtimes piece on boxes of his negatives of the Spanish Civil War which were thought to be lost since decades but have been rediscovered recently.

There's probably a book and exhibition coming up but till then - one picture I really like -
of the box with the roll of negatives which you can see on a slide show here:
Link

I'm not sure if digital data would survive for 75 years laying around in boxes like this, but it seems that these negative are still in a pretty good shape.