Robert Capa, Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, 1936. 'Robert Capa copyright Magnum Photos' in lower right corner. Digital print on 10" x 7.5" glossy photo paper. Fine condition. Printed Later, 2000's. Few photographs in the history of the 20th century possess the ability to crystallize an entire conflict in a single instant. Known globally as The Falling Soldier, this image became the visual emblem of the Spanish Civil War and the photograph that defined the career of Robert Capa, co-founder of Magnum Photos and one of the most influential photographers of his time. Taken on September 5, 1936, near Córdoba, the image shows a Republican militiaman collapsing at the precise moment he is struck by a bullet. Regardless of the historical debates that followed, what the photograph captured —and what continues to resonate decades later— is the stark vulnerability of human life in war: a body suspended between motion and mortality. Initially published by the French magazine Vu in 1936, the photograph achieved international recognition after appearing in Life on July 12, 1937. That publication transformed Capa into the first modern war photographer —a witness defined by immediacy, proximity, and physical risk. Until his death in 1954 after stepping on a landmine in Indochina, Capa consistently defended the authenticity of this moment as direct reportage. Capa stands at the centre of photographic history alongside Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, Elliott Erwitt, Philippe Halsman, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Robert Doisneau, Steve McCurry and the major visual storytellers of the twentieth century. This print is not merely an iconic photograph; it is a foundational image of European memory, a document whose symbolic power remains undiminished. An essential acquisition for collectors of war photography, Spanish history, or defining images of the modern era.