The Falling Soldier is an iconic black-and-white photograph by the Hungarian-American photographer Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War. The image depicts a Republican soldier at the moment of his death from a gunshot to his head.it was said to depict the death of a Republican Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth soldier, during the Battle of Cerro Muriano in the Spanish Civil War. The soldier in the photograph was later claimed to be the anarchist militiaman Federico Borrell García.
What is manipulating reality in photography?
Photograph manipulation involves the transformation or alteration of a photograph. Some photograph manipulations are considered to be skilful artwork, while others are considered to be unethical practices, especially when used to deceive, you could trick people too.
Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film- Bright, Susan (2019) Is it Real?
Can a photograph lie?
Given the right circumstances, it is possible to mislead someone by presenting an unedited, accurate photo. For example, one could use an unedited photo of two people facing each other to create the misleading impression that they were talking to each other when the photo was taken.
A camera itself never does lie, but people often misinterpret what they see, and others manipulate what they show you. However not all photos are reliable and sometimes not all photographs were taken with documentary intent and some are heavily manipulated. Many decades of photographs are in black-and-white or the colour has faded and is no longer accurate.
Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian–American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. Friedman had fled political repression in Hungary when he was a teenager, moving to Berlin, where he enrolled in college.
He is most famous for his images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century.
Documentary photography’s central moral associations are:
depicting truth
recording life as it is
camera as a witness.