The power of a photograph

 "Falling soldier" by Robert Capa

At first, I was looking for a colourful and modern photo, but I chose this because it's very striking to see a man losing his life in a second.

This picture is called "Death of a loyalist soldier"or "Falling soldier". The man who appears in it was Federico Borrell Garcia, and he was 25 years old.

It's one of the most well-known photographies of Spanish civil war, and it was taken by Robert Capa on 5th September in 1936.

When Robert took the photo, he was with her girlfriend, Gerda. She was German and the photographer too. When the war was ending, Gerda died of a cannonball.

The photo was captured at the same moment that a bullet killed Federico. He was wearing a white T-shirt, light colour trousers, shoes and a leather belt, and in his right hand he had a riffle.

During all the day, Capa was taking a lot of photographies to do a report, and this was the last photo that he took. It transmits me pain and sadness because I can't imagine what was the photographer's reaction when he saw that a man had dead in front of him.

All the images that Robert took the day of Federico's death, were published for first time on the 23rd September of 1936 in a French magazine.

This picture created a lot of opinions on the population. There were people that thought that it wasn't a real and spontaneous image. They said that it was an assembly and Federico posed for the photo.

Other people thought that it was a true picture that Capa did during the war.

But the true history of this history of this photo is that the 5th of September was a quiet day, so Robert went out with some soldiers to do some photographies of a false attack, when suddendly, they were victims of unexpected shoots.

Carla Baena

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The power of a photograph

"The kiss" by Alfred Eisenstaedt

This photo was taken in Times Square, New York. At first, you can see a beautiful kiss between a marine and a nurse, and a lot of people walking around them looking the scene smiling.

The marine was dressing his uniform: dark clothes, a blue and white scarf around the neck and a white hat.

The nurse was dressing a white dress, white shoes and white tights.

It was taken on the 14 of August of 1945. They were two unknown young persons celebrating the end of the Second World War.

The marine was walking through Times Square kissing all the girls he saw, and  when he saw the nurse, he took her by the waist and she went up her right leg.

The photographer was Alfred Eisenstaedt. He was a very famous photographer of the Western of Prussia (the actual Poland). He started  his photographer life there, but in 1935 he went to the USA, and since then he lived there all his life.

When he saw, on Time Square the kiss, he took a photo quickly.

On the 27 of August of 1945, the photo was on the cover of Life's magazine.

I chose this photo because I think this is a very romantic moment of the history.

The photo was really natural and spontaneous, because they weren't posing for the photo. I think this is striking too, because it's too strange to see a nurse kissing a marine on the street.

I like how a simple kiss can represent the end of a big war.

Andrea Fernández

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The power of a photograph

I chose that image because it was taken in one of my favourite places. This place, as I said one day in class, is Ibiza. I love it because there are a lot of beaches, luxury and party. So, it's the perfect island you can go in summer during holidays. To be precise, in the photograph you can see a beautiful sunset. It's near a swimming pool and next to the sea too. I think all these things together can transmit a good feeling. It's very peacefull, natural and maybe romantic if you are with a special person in that moment. The image is very dark but the colours red and orange highlight and make the photo a bit colourful.

This moment was taken from inside a room of the hotel. The person who took the photo is my brother, because he went during a week this summer. He said to me that it was amazing. He's a professional photographer, so he made a lot of fantastic photographs during his time in Ibiza.

I also want to be a photographer because I think it's an interesting profession.

I hope in the future I could do the same as my brother and maybe one day I will go to Ibiza to have a very good time and to make a lot of photos like this.

Marina López

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