Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alan, Quoting from Russell Miller's Magnum - Fifty Years at the Front Line of History (at pp.28-9):- "But real evidence capable of settling the dispute remained elusive until recently, when it was revealed that an amateur historian had finally tracked down the identity of the soldier as Federico Garcia, a twenty-four-year-old mill worker from Alcoy, near Alicante. In 1996 Garcia's sister-in-law still lived in ALcoy and recognised him in the picture; she remembered her husband coming home alone from the war and saying that Federico had been killed; he had been seen throwing up his arms as he was shot. Military archives in Madrid confirm that Federico Garcia was the only soldier to die at Cerro Muriano on 5 September 1936 - the day Capa took the famous picture." Don't know how authoritative Russell Miller is, but am more inclined to think that it is more difficult to hide the truth for over half a century than to capture something like this (whether Capa did it by skill or by chance is another question). Regards, Kam - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Hull" <hull@telia.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Robert Capa Photo > I have always been fascinated by that photo because to me it screamed > FAKE