Death of a Loyalist Soldier [1936]

From 1936 to 1939 Robert Capa photographed the horrors the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, he 
became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist 
Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of 
his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy 
about the authenticity of this photograph. Historians eventually succeeded in identifying 
the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García and proved it authentic. This is the best-known 
picture of the Spanish civil war.

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Death of a Loyalist Soldier by Robert Capa, 1936. This is one of the most famous photographs 
of the Twentieth Century. This image, of a soldier suddenly cut down by a bullet during 
the Spanish Civil War is a powerful image of the horrors of war, and demonstrated that 
photojournalism could be an eloquent medium of an emotive power the equal of painting.