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Article: Capa photo likely staged, research finds.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2009
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By Harold Heckle
The Associated Press
MADRID
Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it might have been staged.
When published in September 1936 by French magazine Vu, and later in Life magazine, the caption on the legendary photojournalist's "Falling Militiaman" said it depicted the moment a Republican rifleman was mortally wounded.
The location was given as Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba front, where forces backing Gen. Francisco Franco ...