Best known for photographing the Spanish Civil War and co-founding the first International Photography Agency, the work of Robert Capa has been overshadowed by questions of authenticity and staging. I feel this is an irrelevance, surely all photography is staged. However, the debate surrounding his iconic image of the Spanish Civil War Fallen Soldier is particularly interesting especially when considered in the context of the morality of war photography. If you're interested, Susan Sontag writes about it in her essay Regarding the Pain of Others.
Turns out Capa was also a babe.
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