DUSSELDORF.- This photo is one of the most iconic photos in the world and is etched deeply in people’s memories: a soldier, his arms thrown backwards as he falls, his rifle sliding out of his grasp, has just been hit by the bullet that will end his life. In this photo, which is entitled ‘Death of a Loyalist Militiaman’ and was taken during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, the photographer Robert Capa captures the quintessence of all wars. One could say that this photo and the photos subsequently taken by Robert Capa and the triumvirate of George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and David Seymour both during this war and on the horrifying battle-fields and in the places of desperation of the Second World War mark the start of war reporting through photography. In her 2003 book Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag, who was critical of war photography in her early essays, revised her previous opinion that people become immune when exposed to pictures of violence and war. She also