Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Capa fake?!

I really got surprised now. Robert Capa's propably the most famous photo of death of a loyalist soldier is now under suspicion.

I have always like photography, both watching and shooting. And this photo I knew for a long time already – even before I knew who had taken it. So powerful and impressing. The last time I saw it on a big scale was last year in Stockholm where they had Robert Capa's exhibition. And it was stunning.

And now even more stunning when researchers claim that it's staged. :-O

BUT. It doesn't change the fact Robert Capa was a great photographer. It doesn't diminish the work he did to fight against cruelties of war. Even this suspiced staging of the photo could be seen as a pro-peace act.

I wanted to link the Associated Press news here, but I couldn't find it. So I'm linking the YLE news instead.

So nothing about NL today, see yous!!

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