Finding a Fearless Photographers Voice Mr. Capa says that the “Falling Soldier” photo — taken in Andalusia — came while he was in the trenches with 20 green Republican soldiers with old rifles “who were dying every minute” as they faced a Fascist machine gun. He recounted that there were several bloody but unsuccessful attempts by the Republican soldiers to rush the machine gun nest. “So the fourth time I just kind of put my camera above my head and even didn’t look and clicked a picture when he moved over the trench and that was all,” he said. “I never looked at my pictures there. And I sent my pictures back with lots of other pictures that I took. I stayed in Spain for three months and when I came back, I was a very famous photographer because that camera which I hold above my head just caught a man at the moment when he was shot.“ The studio recording of the “Hi! Jinx” NBC radio interview was with the husband-and-wife talk show hosts Jinx Falkenburg and Tex McCrary. Apparently, Mr. Capa knew them both. Mr. McCrary was a journalist and, as a former Army Air Corps colonel, led the first journalists into the ruins of Hiroshima. It is the only known recording of Mr. Capa’s voice, and until its discovery earlier this year by Brian Wallis, the chief curator of the International Center of Photography, there was no way to know what Mr. Capa sounded like, unless one knew him 60 years ago. Previously one had to rely on the representations of Mr. Capa’s friends and colleagues at Life magazine or Magnum, who sometimes seemed intent on continuing the mythic image that Mr. Capa — born in Hungary as Endre Erno Friedmann — himself created (Audio below). Richard Whelan, his biographer, never heard his voice, though he had searched radio archives for a recording of this interview.
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