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Robert Capa – The Falling Soldier (1936)
Co-founder of the Magnum Photos cooperative of photographers along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa’s image depicting the death of a soldier during the Spanish Civil War is one of history’s most famous and captivating war photographs.
Foreshadowing Eddie Adams’ Saigon Execution (more on that later), which similarly showed the moment of death, The Falling Soldier was incredibly captured by Capa holding his camera above his head in the trenches, taking war photography to a different, more personal level.
The expressive image brings to mind an equally famous image of war in Spain, Francisco Goya’s The Third of May , 1808 (1814) and prompted the British magazine Picture Post to label Capa “the greatest war photographer in the world” in 1938.
Co-founder of the Magnum Photos cooperative of photographers along with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa’s image depicting the death of a soldier during the Spanish Civil War is one of history’s most famous and captivating war photographs.
Foreshadowing Eddie Adams’ Saigon Execution (more on that later), which similarly showed the moment of death, The Falling Soldier was incredibly captured by Capa holding his camera above his head in the trenches, taking war photography to a different, more personal level.
The expressive image brings to mind an equally famous image of war in Spain, Francisco Goya’s The Third of May , 1808 (1814) and prompted the British magazine Picture Post to label Capa “the greatest war photographer in the world” in 1938.
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