NYC center can't solve 73-year-old photo mystery

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[JoeProBono]

[devere]

It seems most likely the photo is genuine:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-capa/in-love-and-war/47/

According to the above link, the fallen soldier’s name was Federico Borrell García, and he was killed in battle on September 5, 1936.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

Thx!

Proving that Robert Capa’s “Falling Soldier” is Genuine: A Detective Story

[mware]

I would say the same for Rosenthals still photo of the second flag raising on Iwo Jima.

I know that a camera was filming and got the same shot but to get it the instant of the highest drama is amazing.

[martin_fierro]

ICP experts came up empty in their search for the photo's negative.

Baddabing, baddaboom. Problem solved.

[cripplecreek]

I was thinking about trying that with some of my great grandfather’s old negatives. I don’t know how well it would work but I have a flatbed scanner and CS3 to play around with.

[JoeProBono]

You're too good honey

[yazoo]

Capa was on of the true greats. He actually landed with the first wave on D-day and subsequently had almost all his negatives destroyed in the darkroom by a technician. He was so not a prima donna he just shrugged it off and considered one of the surviving images all the better for the damage.

[Richard Kimball]

I don’t think it’s posed.

[Chode]

nope. with all the film shot on the front over the years, somebody is bound to get something like that on film sooner or later

[Tainan]

Ahh...but we can agree that this photo was indeed the "Decisive Moment"...


Henri Cartier-Bresson
"the decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression."

[Arthur McGowan]

Even with the scarcity of cameras back in the 1930s, the majority of photographs taken back then were taken with cameras.

[JoeProBono]