Robert Capa and the Greatest War Photograph

To me, it seems that Robert Capa’s photo of a falling soldier may be faked. The one thing I noticed immediately was the fact that there were no other soldier with him and how he did not seem to wear any military uniform as well. Capa might have taken the picture to stir up emotions back home; to sort of make the country feel that this war was necessary. And his photo captures the essence of war with the falling soldier being captured at the right time. I do think authenticity matters since the photos that Capa was taking was for the people too see and get a sense of what is going on during the war. Robert Whelan made some good points arguing that the photo was possibly staged, such as when he gets a homicide detective to look at the photograph.