HW#4: Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist Soldier | Freddie Feria

I believe that the arguments against Capa’s photo of The Falling Soldier and their accusations were not convincing. They just had used the knowledge of Capa’s death to use as a way to poke holes in his photo and he wouldn’t be able to defend himself in the fact of his authenticity of his photo. But they were people that defended his photo on his behalf and stated ways that he was there. I do not believe that the photos would be staged, I believe that Capa was a serious photographer and wanted the true sense of getting the good photos. I do believe on cases that authenticity matters, only because in today’s technology, it’s quite easy to manipulate so much of photos that it becomes a challenge to figure out if the photos are authentic or not. But back then, staged or not, they didn’t have the tools that we had today to manipulate photos. I know that his photos should be taken serious as photos that were taken right there because there have been events where people have been at the front of something tragic. Recently, with the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the students took videos and possibly photos of the situation and you can see how it’s pretty obvious that the videos/photos wouldn’t need to be authentic because of all the media reports and such. But looking back at Capa, his photos are, in my opinion, very real and people that would have been there could vogue on his behalf and defend his photos.