Mean I was waiting at the PrintSpace for some prints this morning; I sow this new at the Independent. The debate keeps going. The photograph of a soldier falling to his death after being shot on a grassy hillside is probably the best known image of the Spanish Civil War. But the authenticity of Robert Capa’s dramatic photo has been repeatedly disputed since it appeared in September 1936.
The so-called “falling soldier” was not photographed near Cerro Muriano in Andalusia, as has been claimed, but about 50km to the south-west, near the town of Espejo far from the frontline on a day when there was no military action, a Catalan newspaper claims. “The real location, some 10km from an inactive battle front, demonstrates that the death was not real,” the paper says.
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