Robert Capa and the Greatest War Photograph

Whelan made some good points about Capa’s photographs being staged but it is not enough to convince me that they are. When I first saw this photograph, I did not think it was staged and I still do not think so. This photograph looks real because he is being shot. It is extremely difficult to act that you are being shot, especially in the angle the Loyalist is in. Authenticity does not really matter because even though we may not know, it does not take away from the intensity of the shot.