Round 9: Tossup 3
A photograph taken in this country depicts a woman wearing heels who kneels on a beach while aiming a pistol. In 2010, nearly 4000 smuggled photographs taken in this country were discovered in three cardboard boxes in a closet in Mexico City. Those photographs were taken in this country by the Polish photojournalist David “Chim” Seymour and a pair of Jewish refugee lovers who covered a war in this country using the pseudonym of a fictitious American journalist. The female German photojournalist Gerda Taro died during a battle in this country. The best-known image of a war in this country depicts a rifle slipping out of a man’s hand as he seems to recoil from being shot in the head. For 10 points, Robert Capa may have staged his photograph The Falling Soldier during what country’s 1930s civil war? ■END■
ANSWER: Spain [or España; accept Spanish Civil War or guerra civil española or guerra de España; prompt on Catalonia] (The photograph of the woman wearing heels is Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro.)
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