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Capa picture in Paris


I've been looking on-line for a picture Robert Capa took in Paris, right after the liberation.

It shows a woman, facing the camera, being marched on the street by smiling crowd of Parisians. She's holding a baby, has had her head shaved, is hold a sign saying something like "I've f#cked the Germans", and has clearly been beaten up.

I saw it at an exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Museum, but what struck me was that later the same day I was looking at a pre-Renaissance Italian painting, showing Jesus on the cross (for a change), and noticed that the faces of the people in the crowd were had the same expression as those in the Capa photograph. The joy of public humiliation.

Can anyone provide me with a link to the said photo?

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You might be better finding a library with a good photography/art section and looking in books. I have seen the picture you refer to in a book but I don't remember seeing it online.

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Good advice, but I live in a small village, far from any library.

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For some reason I remember a slightly different angle, where she was more centered, looking at the camera. Maybe I saw a different photo, maybe my memory is going (which it is, in any case).

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