Capa unrolled

Best cultural news of the week: Capa’s negatives from the Spanish Civil War are being scanned from the nitrate originals. The work is being done by the international Centre of Photography in New York, There’s a page of contact prints here.

Radio 4’s Today interviewer raised the question of whether the new discovery would show whether or not Capa’s famous Falling Soldier of 1936 “had been staged”. Since nobody except one or two right-wing historians now believes it was, this was a step too far. The interviewee tactfully kept clear.

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