Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The falling soldier image has always struck me as real, because it is so strangely a split instant out of life. It is not a beautiful photo. It is weird, the way pictures of people while they are eating look weird, in that oddly human sort of way. If Capa was trying to fake some kind of compelling, meaningful statement for propaganda purposes, he could easily have orchestrated and composed something far more obviously graphic, and we would have recognized it as a set up, like those Nat Geo pictures with perfect placement of background elements. Emanuel