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TASK 2.

IN THE PICTURE

The falling soldier - Robert Capa (1910-1954)


Biography
Endre Ernő Friedmann (Budapest, Hungría 1913 – Thai Binh, Vietnam, 1954)
and Gerda Taro (Stuttgart, Germany 1910 – El Escorial, Spain 1937), known by
the pseudonym Robert Capa, are probably the most important graphic war
correspondents of the 20th century. She is considered the first woman to cover
the war front as a photojournalist and the first to die while carrying out that
job. Her real name was Gerta Pohorylle.

In the 30’s, in Paris, Gerda and Endre meet


during a shooting session that he was doing
with a friend of hers. They ended up falling
in love and Friedmann shared with Gerda
his knowledge about photography while he
perfected his own technic.
Biography
Since life as photographers didn’t cover their economic needs
and they couldn’t find a stable job, Gerda and Endre created
a character named Robert Capa, who was supposedly a
renowned photographer who had come from the United
States to work in Europe. This fictional character was so
famous that he sold his photos through his representatives:
Friedmann and Pohorylle, at triple the price of a French
photographer. This trick worked perfectly and soon they
received a large number of orders that produced economic
income.
Coinciding with the Spanish Civil War, Capa moved to
Spain. During this conflict, he always remains on the
front line. On the Córdoba front, he took one of the
snapshots for which he will be recognized worldwide:
“The falling soldier” (1936). Gerda Taro passed away
during this war.
Biography
In 1947, Capa co-founded the Magnum Photos agency along with Henri
Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. Magnum
became one of the most influential photography agencies in the world.

During WWII, Capa continued documenting conflicts, including the Normandy Landing
in 1944. His pictures in Omaha Beach became iconic. After the war, Capa continued his
career as a war correspondent and photojournalist, covering conflicts in different parts
of the world.

Robert Capa passed away in 1954 while covering the First Indochina War. Stepping on
a mine, his death was a great loss for the world of documentary photography.Robert
Capa's work remains influential and his images continue to be studied and admired in
the field of photojournalism. His legacy lives on through Magnum Photos and its
impact on the way conflict and reality are documented through photography.
The falling soldier.

“The falling soldier” is one of the most famous photographs in history, one of the
great anti-war symbols. This black and white photograph is from September 5,
1936. During the Spanish Civil War.
In this picture we can see a man falling on a field, from historical context and
the shotgun in his hand we understand that it is downed soldier on a battlefield.
It was first published in Vu magazine, but fame came when it appeared in Life.
From that moment on, it became a reference in the Spanish Civil War. In the
past it was located next to Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofía Museum, but
they are no longer together. The mythical painting is still in its place, but the
photograph has lost its position...
The falling soldier.
Perhaps Robert Capa understood before anyone else the meaning of the war
spectacle to sell more newspapers, to show something striking so that the
masses respond. They do not want to see soldiers parading or already dead on
the battlefield, but rather what a soldier sees in the trenches, to feel the fear of
who was really there… Although it is suspected to be a montage, this photograph
is a symbol against war. People shout “no to war” with this image in mind. It is
the demonstration of horror, of what we do not want. That is its strength. Maybe
it's not true, but it awakens an anti-war feeling in all of us, and many war
photographs don't achieve that… Some consider Capa ahead of his time, because
he knew before anyone else that photography is not truth, it is your own truth.
Bibliography
xatakafoto.com

magnumphotos.com

wikipedia (Robert Capa)

wikipedia (Gerda Taro)


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