Editing Robert Capa (section)

===Spanish Civil War, 1936===

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From 1936 to 1939, Capa worked in Spain, photographing the [[Spanish Civil War]], along with Taro and [[David Seymour (photographer)|David Seymour]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/design/30capa.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=robert%20capa&st=cse "New Works by Photography’s Old Masters"], ''New York Times,'' April 30, 2009</ref>

It was during that war that Capa took the photo now called ''[[The Falling Soldier]]'' (1936), purported to show the death of a [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republican]] soldier. The photo was published in magazines in France and then by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[Picture Post]]''.<ref name="Ingledew">Ingledew, John. ''Photography'', Laurence King Publishing (2005) p. 184</ref> The authenticity of the photo was later questioned, with evidence including other photos from the scene suggesting it was staged.{{efn|The authenticity of the photograph is today in doubt, with some questioning its location, the identity of its subject, and the discovery of staged photographs taken at the same time and place.<ref name="PBS">{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html|title=Richard Whelan, ''Proving that Robert Capa's Falling Soldier is Genuine: a Detective Story,'' ''American Masters,'' PBS Website.|website=[[PBS]]|access-date=September 10, 2017|archive-date=August 12, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060812062421/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iconic_Capa_war_photo_was_staged_ne_07172009.html "Iconic Capa war photo was stage: newspaper"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720232147/http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Iconic_Capa_war_photo_was_staged_ne_07172009.html |date=July 20, 2009 }}, AFP</ref>}} ''[[Picture Post]],'' a pioneering [[photojournalism]] magazine published in the United Kingdom, had once described then twenty-five year old Capa as "the greatest war photographer in the world."<ref name="Davenport" />{{rp|155}}

The next year, in 1937, Taro died when the motor vehicle on which she was traveling (apparently standing on the footboard) collided with an out-of-control tank. She had been returning from a photographic assignment covering the [[Battle of Brunete]].<ref name="Davenport" />

Capa accompanied then-journalist and author [[Ernest Hemingway]] to photograph the war, which Hemingway would later describe in his novel, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1940).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cinemastationblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/capahemingway.jpg|title=Photo of Capa (far left) with Hemingway (far right) in Spain|website=wordpress.com|access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref>  ''Life'' magazine published an article about Hemingway and his time in Spain, along with numerous photos by Capa.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M0oEAAAAMBAJ&dq=robert+capa+hemingway&pg=PA52 "Life Documents Hemingway's New Novel with War Shots"], ''Life'' magazine, January 6, 1941</ref>

In December 2007, three boxes filled with rolls of film, containing 4,500 35mm negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Capa, Taro, and Chim (David Seymour), which had been considered lost since 1939, were discovered in [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffZMf_GBt6U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ffZMf_GBt6U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=The Mexican Suitcase trailer|last=The212BERLIN|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=April 1, 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/arts/design/27kenn.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin "The Capa Cache"], ''New York Times'', January 27, 2008</ref><ref>[https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/the-mexican-suitcase-traveling-exhibition "The Mexican Suitcase, Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211201100/https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/the-mexican-suitcase-traveling-exhibition |date=February 11, 2021 }}, International Center of Photography</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/files/exhibitions_mexicase_featuredcropped.jpg|title=Photo of the Spanish Civil War|website=icp.org|access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>[https://www.ormsdirect.co.za/blog/2016/03/23/the-fascinating-story-of-the-mexican-suitcase/ "The Fascinating Story of The Mexican Suitcase"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040138/https://www.ormsdirect.co.za/blog/2016/03/23/the-fascinating-story-of-the-mexican-suitcase/ |date=December 1, 2017 }}, ''ORMS''</ref> In 2011, Trisha Ziff directed a film about those images, entitled ''[[The Mexican Suitcase]]''.<ref name="IDA">{{cite news|title=Meet the DocuWeeks Filmmakers: Trisha Ziff--'The Mexican Suitcase'|url=http://www.documentary.org/magazine/meet-docuweeks-filmmakers-trisha-ziff-mexican-suitcase|access-date=January 16, 2016|publisher = [[International Documentary Association]] | work=Documentary|issue=August 2011}}</ref>{{quote box
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