Robert Capa’s war photos were one of the most famous war photos. Why are they famous? the photos caused so much controversy of rather they were staged or not that it caused a lot of people to question Capa himself. In Capa war series that was published, there were a few photos that made people question the realism. There were two photos of soldiers getting shot and another photo of all the soldiers taking a photo together. I don’t think the falling soldier photograph is staged. I agree with the reading in the last few paragraphs, it tells of how the soldiers left hand is curled towards the palm which means it has gone limp which means the soldier was already dead. if this was acting a normal person would try to extend their hand to catch themselves has they fall like the soldier is the photograph. This is a reason that proves that this photograph is not staged.
Homework #3: Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist Soldier
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Homework #3 Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist Soilders
After examine Robert Capa’s photograph “Death of a Loyalist soldier” and reading the article about Robert Capa i realized that Robert Capa’s photograph is not authentic and staged. One of main reason it is stage because how the person body is position in the photograph. When a person is shoot, their body falls towards the ground without any crazy gesture. Controversy has been made up because there is no evidence of how did the loyalist soldier die. There is no gunshot wound shown anywhere in the body. There is no blood on the body of that person. It also a fake because there were no other troops near him. He was the only one out there. One can compare this image “Death of a Loyalist soldier” to another controversial image “Home of Rebel Sharpshooter 1863” by Alexander Gardener. Both images were stage and manipulated by the photographer.