Robert Capa's The Falling Soldier depicts a bullet's impact on a soldier from the Libertarian Youth (FIJL), later claimed to be the anarchist militiaman Federico Borrell García. Taken during the Spanish Civil War, image has become unrivaled in the field of photography for its depiction of sudden death, in the form of a man falling backwards while his extended arm loses grip on a large rifle. Distinguished by an otherwise barren landscape, the photograph was first published in the French news magazine Vu within a month of being taken, and in LIFE magazine the following year. In subsequent decades, issues of authenticity have arisen, as staging photos during the Spanish Civil War was common due to restricted access for photojournalists on active fronts. Yet the image remains a cultural landmark in the history of photography, suggesting a decisive point from which photographic depictions of violence during ongoing conflicts became quickly and widely distributed.