Discussion Topic: The Greatest War Photograph and Robert Capa

At first I thought that all the arguments were exaggerated. The author of the article gives just so many explanations and many different points of view, that sometimes agree with each other, and sometimes diverge, making the picture seem staged. It’s like when somebody who lied tries to give you so many explanations about what happened, that it just sounds fake. However, after reading the whole article, I was convinced that the picture is not staged. Probably if I see myself in the same situation, of defending something I believe in, and that I’m convinced that it’s true, I would do the same, I would give as many proofs as I could to prove my point. I believe that it’s much easier to just say something is fake, or to give negative feedback to somebody else’s work, than to make such a deep investigation about what happened in reality. However, I must say that in photojournalism it is crucial that the pictures are authentic. Pictures can be staged for artistic purposes or whatever, but if you are trying to document events of any kind, the “correct” way to do it would be by taking the things as they happen, and not fixing anything. However, nowadays pictures go throw an editorial process before going to public eyes. Thankfully we have social media, which could help ending the lies that mainstream media gives us everyday.