hw 4

Robert Capa’s photography, death of loyalist solider is known to be his best war photography. In the reading by Whelan, confirms that the photo was taken in the battle at Cerro Muriano. The reading also tells us that capa was present at that battle. And the main person who was in the photography indeed dead in the capa’s photography, made a controversy behind the legitimacy of the photograph. I think the photograph was staged because, in the picture you can’t see anyone else in the background. And in early stage of photography we all know that it takes time to take a photograph and being in the battel field in D-day I don’t think it was a legitimate photograph. Also putting yourself in battle field on D-day looked more than dangerous of your life because, how the bullets were flying in the battle field. It doesn’t make much sense to go through all that risk to take a photograph. However, it was confirmed that the guy on the picture did die at the battle. Philip Knightley in 1998 argued that it was possible that the photography was staged then the solider died anyway.