is not true that Robert Capa is not the author of the famous photograph of Federico Borrell García Republican who took on the hill of Muriano, north of Cordoba on September 5, 1936, during the civil war English. Since at least ten years Richard Whelan, the biographer of the great journalist, investigated and stopped well established that the authorship of that image is unique and undoubtedly Layer.
Perhaps this statement does not yet unequivocally Whelan in the first edition of Robert Capa: A Biography , published in 1985 by Knopf, New York. Itself makes, however, and plenty of details in a text to show you Robert Capa: Photographs that the June 14, 1998 opened at the International Center of Photography Midtown in New York.
The explanation is irrelevant because it has become to repeat the lie by the way Discovery, Jan. 27, three cardboard suitcases with 127 rolls of film that kept Chiki Emeric Weisz (Hungarian childhood friend in Budapest Layer and exiled to Mexico) and they treasure more than three thousand negatives attributable to Robert Capa, Maurice Oshron, David Seymour, Chiki Weisz, and companion of Robert Capa, Gerda Taro German who died in the line of fire, in Brunswick, under bombardment, and smashed by a Republican tank. The negatives are in the International Center of Photography Midtown, where nobody knows who took them (perhaps the same Chiki Weisz).
"The analysis of the reels reemerged in the briefcases will clarify aspects of authorship on the sequencing of the footage and stories surrounding controversial as certainly the jewel in the crown of the work of Capa: Death of a policeman, first published in September 1936 in the French magazine Vu whose never again be negative, "wrote Javier Martín Domínguez El País on 29 January. Gerda Taro
Rollyflex used a square format, but Robert Capa was the first to bring to the battlefield the Leica 35 mm, and rectangular, like the picture of the militia, which was already on the market since the 20 and she slammed which is perhaps the most important and most controversial picture in the history of the war for its symbolic implications (remember the shooting of Goya during the Napoleonic invasion and the crucifixion of Christ) and because there was someone, British journalist O'Dowd Gallagher , who was questioned, not without inconsistencies, its authenticity.
Indeed, in the mid-70's Gallagher said that Capa had been with him at a hotel in San Sebastian, and Franco's side, the day he allegedly took the photo of the militia. Since then also ran sort unfortunate that Capa had stayed at the Republican militia and thinned its hitherto undisputed prestige. However, while driving a series of interviews on Capa, Richard Whelan demonstrated not only that the old English reporter was confused (Capa could not have been at the forefront Franco because they had arrested or killed) but the militiamen had been unequivocally a boy of 24 years the town of Alcoy, near Alicante, by the name of Federico Borrell García.
Later, the biographer found in the archives of the English government that Federico Borrell García was killed in front of Cerro Muriano, north of Cordoba on September 5, 1936 and the dispute was settled in favor Layer.
Furthermore, a countryman of Federico Borrell García, Mario Brotóns Jorda, acknowledged that the man in the photograph belonged to the regiment from Alcoy because the cartridge of the dead were unique, having been designed and made by the saddlers of people with their own style and not the other combatants were using the Republic. In addition, Brotóns established in Salamanca and Madrid files that only a member of the Alcoy militia had died in front of Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936: Federico Borrell García.
And not only that the photograph showed Brotóns Layer Federico's younger brother, Evaristo, and this confirmed that all the circumstances of time and place agreed and arguably the immortal soldier was his brother.
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At forty Robert Capa stepped on a landmine in Vietnam, near the Thai-Binh, a few seconds after taking his last picture. Hungarian, born in 1913 and died in the line of fire in 1954, camera in hand, was due in the legal life Ernö name Endre Friedmann, but as a photographer, went on record with the pseudonym adopted the suggestion of the love of his life Gerda Taro.
His photographic work reminds us pretelevisivo years of journalism, a time when the reader had imagine both text and images of the photograph, in a sort of intermediary preelectrónica and, so to speak, more literary (or novel).
Jew, Robert Capa was forced to emigrate from Budapest to Paris in 1933 and met three crucial life: David "Chum" Seymour. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Gerda Taro. Chiki Weisz was helping the developer and all involved in the creation of the Alliance Photo agency in 1934.
After the Republican defeat, Capa moved to New York and then Life magazine sent him to photograph the Normandy landings which have become their instant celebrity out of focus of the call Omaha Beach in code. Between one race and another was given a tour of Mexico on July 7, 1940, and portrayed a almazanista protester killed by police and shown on the cover seems to lie because the truth never know, the Mexican novelist Daniel Sada.
Returning to New York in 1947 founded the first history picture agency, Magnum, along with David Seymour and Cartier-Bresson, taking the name of the bottle of champagne with which he always held.
also working for Life, was in John Steinbeck in the USSR (1947). He received the Medal of Freedom, U.S. Army, and every year spent several weeks in Israel between 1948 and 1950. Appointed President Magnum agency in 1951 makes reporting on movie characters and fashion.
also relive their negative political movements street in Paris of the 30's, the bombing of Bilbao, the farewell to the International Brigades in Barcelona in 1938, soldiers from China in 1938, Allied troops in Troina and Monreale , Sicily, in 1943, the cacophony of the liberation of Paris in 1944, and of course the opening scenes of Vietnam two weeks after the defeat of the French in Dienbienphu.
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