Robert Capa Farewell ceremony for the International Brigades. Near Barcelona, Spain. October 25, 1938.
“My brother Bob went to Spain for the same reason that volunteers from all over the world went there to f
(...) ight for the Republic. They all knew it was their fight, not just that of the Spanish people. They believed and hoped that Republican victory might bring about the collapse of fascism throughout Europe, thereby averting the world war that seemed more and more inevitable with each passing day.”
— Cornell Capa, Heart of Spain: Robert Capa’s Photographs of the Spanish Civil War (Aperture, 1999) © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos
