Robert Capa's Lost Spanish Civil War negs

[David A. Goldfarb]

Interesting little article in the NYT--

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/ar...=1&oref=slogin

Check out his neg filing system.

[Lee Shively]

Fascinating story. His filing methods were a little better than mine at one time.

[pentaxuser]

It's interesting that the "Falling Soldier" might have been made by another photog when a thread on remembering every exposure has recently appeared on APUG. One thing is certain I feel. You couldn't forget making that shot so there's no question of Capa being mistaken. He either made it or he knew he had lied. Perhaps with the best of motives/intentions. We'll never know. After all Jimmy Stewart didn't actually shoot Liberty Valance, did he?

A little bit of whimsy does you good

pentaxuser

[copake_ham]

Amazing how the Eastman House preservationists commented on the fine condition of the negatives. One can only wonder what 70 years will do to digi media.

What I don't understand is why anyone would fixate of a throw away line about the "remote possibility" of the provenance of Falling Soldier.

What a churlish way to react to a fascinating discovery.

[ernie51]

Who gets the movie rights?

[Paul.A]

Amazing how the Eastman House preservationists commented on the fine condition of the negatives. One can only wonder what 70 years will do to digi media.

What I don't understand is why anyone would fixate of a throw away line about the "remote possibility" of the provenance of Falling Soldier.

What a churlish way to react to a fascinating discovery.

There has been so much speculation regarding this picture, its as if it has a achieved a mythological status that a lot of people want to destroy. I remember reading a piece on how a journalist had identified the soldier and found that he did indeed die on that day and that other relatives had been there to witness it. For the life of me I can't remember who wrote the piece or where it appeared.

For anyone who's interested Digital journalist did a great article on Capa and Taro recently. Here's the link

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue07...aro_intro.html