Fine Print: The Spinner. Deleitosa, Spain, 1951 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) Champagne was flowing… I glimpsed

Champagne was flowing… I glimpsed

To get the same outcome

Gilot said of the photographs Capa took of them during that period

inspired by Graham Greene’s novel

” reads a quote from Paul Fusco on the final page of his critically-acclaimed photo-book RFK Funeral Train

Fine Print: The Spinner. Deleitosa, Spain, 1951 Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) Champagne was flowing… I glimpsedAs staff photographer for LIFE magazine, W. Eugene Smith traveled to Spain in 1950 to document repression and poverty under the harsh regime of its dictator, Francisco Franco. Smith embedded himself in Deleitosa, a small town of 2300 residents untouched by progress. The story appeared in the April 9, 1951, issue of LIFE, which later called Spanish Village perhaps the most famous of its photo essays. The original caption of this photo, known widely as