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Chile presents photographs of Robert Capa

One hundred thirty Robert Capa's famous photographs are set in Chile while also revives a dispute over whether one of his most famous work, Death of a militiaman, is whether or not the product of an assembly.

The exhibition Robert Capa: The War Correspondent, mounted at the Cultural Center Las Condes, includes images of the Spanish Civil War photographs of the Normandy landings, the Japanese bombing of Hankou, the air attacks on London and the liberation of Paris, told the AP Maria Elena Correa, Press of the municipal corporation.

Correa said the public's reaction has been fantastic, has many assistants, especially young people, academics, photographers, "and" this is an informed public, quite polite. "

Capa (1913-54) is considered a pioneer of photography in modern warfare, where the practitioner is practically in the middle of the battle that is portraying. In fact, died in Vietnam when he stepped on an antipersonnel mine while worked.

Correa said that copies of the photographs were made on paper to clorobromuro silver, which allows further highlight the nuances of gray. The work, which in turn is a copy of the paper because the negatives were lost, was conducted by Magnum Photos, the photo agency that created the late photojournalist created as a cooperative of independent photographers.

Capa, one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century, was born in Hungary in the heart of a wealthy Jewish family that gave him the name of Endre Friedmann. At 18 he left home for work in a photo agency in Berlin, where Adolf Hitler came to power he moved back to Paris.

Given the difficulties in selling his work, his girlfriend Gerda Taro he invented the personality of an American photographer named Robert Capa and promoted in newspapers and magazines in France. The reporter documented part of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, Normandy and the liberation in the Country, and ended up traveling to the United States, where he was nationalized in 1946.

When the Spanish Civil War in 1936, traveled to that nation and portrayed from the side of the anti-fascist struggle, was born there and one of his most famous photographs: "Death of a militiaman," which displays a Spanish Republican militiaman with open arms, a rifle in his right hand and his head while falling backwards on the pitch moments after being hit by a bullet in Cerro Muriano enemy, in Cordoba, Spain, on September 5, 1936. Capa was 23 years old when captured that moment with his lens.

The picture was widely published and led him to fame, but also aroused suspicions that it could be a montage. The emergence in 1995 of a suitcase in Mexico with 3 mil 500 negatives, which include works of two other photographers, it could serve to clarify the doubts. The so-called "Mexican suitcase" lost again until December last year.

London currently on display in another exhibition of Capa from the briefcase. If you appear negative moments before and after the death of the soldier, the doubts would be clarified.

"With the appearance of the briefcase, in a way confirms the truth of the picture, because among the 3 mil 500 negatives, there are many who are on the same day and time when the photograph was taken of the militia," said Correa.

Among the various theories, another said that Capa left the Sept. 5 along with a group of militiamen to take some photographs and that while they were in that one of them was hit by an enemy bullet. For now, the mystery persists.

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