{"id":582,"date":"2009-07-17T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-07-17T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T21:13:55","slug":"capa-photo-fake-or-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"CAPA PHOTO: FAKE OR REAL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo by Robert Capa\" alt=\"Photo by Robert Capa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/capa_soldier_01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.&#8221;<br \/>\nPhoto by Robert Capa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robert Capa&#8217;s famous photo of a falling soldier during the Spanish Civil War, unquestioned for decades, has been the subject of a lot of controversy in more recent decades.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090717\/wl_afp\/spainhistoryphotographycapa_20090717153125\">Yahoo news item<\/a>, based on an article in  <em>El Periodico<\/em> (a Barcelona based newspaper) again question&#8217;s the authenticity of the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think biographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/robert-capa\/in-love-and-war\/47\/\">Richard Whelan&#8217;s article on the PBS web site<\/a> is the definitive statement on the issue. Whelan maintains, based on a lot of evidence including the identity of the soldier and Capa&#8217;s whereabouts, that the photo is authentic. Read the article and see what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.&#8221; Photo by Robert Capa Robert Capa&#8217;s famous photo of a falling soldier during the Spanish Civil War, unquestioned for decades, has been the subject of a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}