ROBERT CAPA (1913–1954) ‘The Falling soldier’ (Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death), Córdoba front, September 5th, 1936

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1950s, early exhibition print 24,4 x 34,1 cm Photographer's agency stamp on the reverse, label with typographic annotations reading “This is Capa's most famous single picture, which came out of his reportage on the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Capa's camera caught the soldier at the very moment of death, as he was killed by a machine-gun bullet through his head” on the reverse LITERATURE La Guerre Civile en Espagne, VU Magazine, 23.9.1936; Robert Capa, Death in Spain, Life Magazine, 12. Juli 1937; Robert Robert Capa / Gerda Taro (eds.), Death In The Making: Photographs by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, New York 1938, cover; Richard Whelan (ed.), Robert Capa – The definitive collection, London 2001, p. 81; Cornell Capa/Richard Whelan (eds.), Robert Capa. Photographs, New York 1985, p. 42-43.