famous picture below in 1936. Seems that the International Center of Photography managed to get hold of a copy of this rare interview broadcast back in October 1947. Fascinating to hear his description today of how he held his camera above the trench where he was located as another wave of fighters went over the top into machine gun fire and just took the shot not knowing at the time what he had actually captured on film. I hadn't realised that many thought the shot was stage managed but from what he said on the recording it was in a sense just a lucky shot - a lucky shot, an iconic image 'Death of a Spanish Loyalist' that made him famous. Staged or not, could it be argued this didn't matter if the image worked in representing the 'anonymity and impersonality of war'
(Reuel Golden : Masters of Photography ,Carlton )?
The comment of the interviewee from the Photographer's Gallery,whose name escapes me, about photographers back then going out to capture reality leapt out at me - this remark set against the view many held at the time that the image was staged felt like something of an 'appetiser' for the next part of this course - real of fake?
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