After carefully looking at Robert Capa’s photograph “Death of a Loyalist Soldier” and reading the given article, i am still not thoroughly convinced this photograph is true and natural. i believe this was staged. A couple reasons i believe that is was not staged is for one, there is no one else in sight or around him at all, this is very strange since their equipment and guns at this time were not very accurate for long range, the shooter would have had to been a lot closer and the soldier would not have gotten that close without some sort of backup. Another reason is that the way he body is thrown, doesn’t seem to me that it looks like he got shot, it looks like he threw himself like that and purposely threw his gun. The only thing i see and read in the article that makes me believe this is real and not staged, is the soldiers left hand. How it is curled which would really happen if he was shot, this would not be something he would have been thinking about if this was staged. Although i don’t think the article is persuasive enough because i am definitely still undeceive.
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