Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe Orlent offers, in reference to Capa's Falling Soldier...
> > And rumours go the photo is faked.
That's been pretty exhaustively debunked. Richard Whelan, one of
Capa's biographers, wrote extensively about the controversy in a
prefatory essay to "Heart of Spain" which accompanied a show at the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid in 1999. (I
didn't see the show; I DO have the book.)
The man's name was Federico Borrell Garcia; he was killed September
5, 1936 at Cerro Muriano. It seems that the cartridge cases he was
wearing were unique to one particular unit, custom made to the design
of its commanding officer... and that unit only lost one man in that
battle. His younger brother, Everisto, was also in the battle and
confirmed that the photograph was his brother and that it matched
precisely the description he had been given of his brother's death.
Other family photographs confirm identities.
It's real.
Albest,
Clayton
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