Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There was an article about Capa's soldier death photo in the weekend supplement of The Age newspaper here in Melbourne about a year ago. From memory it repoduced the complete roll, which had the soldier posed in numerous different falling / dying moments, suggesting without much doubt that the photo was staged. There was also an image reproduced from a French magazine published very soon after the photographs were taken, which was a similar photo - but not the same. This suggests that Capa only settled on the frame used for "Death of a Loyalist Soldier" after a few versions had already been published. Fake? Real? Set-up? Who cares? Where do you draw the line? In the end the meaning is imposed by the viewer. cheers, Lucian G.