Robert Capa, Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, 1936. The Falling Soldier (full title: Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936) is a black and white photograph by Robert Capa, claimed to have been taken on Saturday, September 5, 1936. Digital print on 10" x 7.5" glossy photo paper from the Magnum Photos archive. Robert Capa copyright Magnum Photos, in lower right corner. Fine condition (with minor imperfections). The iconic photograph of the Spanish Civil War haunted its author, Robert Capa, from the day Life magazine published it. His enormous print run and his caption made Capa the most famous war photographer in the world: “Robert Capa's camera captures the moment in which a Spanish soldier is killed by a bullet to the head at the front of Cordoba". From that day until his death when he stepped on a mine in Indochina that certified that yes, he was a war photographer who got too close to the action, doubt hovered over Robert Capa. Life published the photograph on July 12, 1937. But it was not the first media outlet to do so. The iconic image was taken in Espejo, Córdoba, in September 1936. The French magazine Vu published it in 1936. But it went unnoticed by the general public until the following year. The publication of Life caused such a stir that on September 2, 1937, Robert Capa gave an interview to the New York Telegram to explain that the image was real, that he had captured the death of the militiaman just as the bullet hit him. And that was war. Capa had to answer questions almost his entire life. On September 3, 1947 he wrote an article in The man who invented himself. On October 20 of that year he also spoke for WNBC. In all of them he maintained the same thing, although with nuances. The photo was real. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century along with other photographers of his time such as: Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White, Elliott Erwitt, Walter Evans, Eugene Smith, Philippe Halsman, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Robert Doisneau, Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, Ai Weiwei, among many others.