{"id":2184,"date":"2009-12-09T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/12\/who-shot-emiliano-zapata\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T05:34:20","slug":"who-shot-emiliano-zapata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/09\/who-shot-emiliano-zapata\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Shot Emiliano Zapata"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Zapata photo shrouded in mystery<\/h1>\n

For years it was thought that German-born Hugo Brehme took the famous shot of the Mexican revolutionary with crisscrossed bandoleers. But technology has pointed historians in another direction.<\/h2>\n

By Ken Ellingwood<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“It’s an emblematic image in the history of Mexico,” says Mayra Mendoza, deputy director of the government’s photographic collection in the central state of Hidalgo. “Who gave us this photo?”\u00a0(Associated Press<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Reporting from Pachuca, Mexico – The famous rebel poses in full regalia, his right hand gripping an Old West carbine, his left steadying a sword that dangles from the waist. You recognize the bushy mustache, broad sombrero, crisscrossed bandoleers.<\/p>\n

It’s an icon of Mexican history: a black-and-white photograph of Emiliano Zapata believed taken in 1911, a year after the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.<\/p>\n

Published in a Mexican newspaper two years later and reproduced since then in history textbooks and on postcards, T-shirts and shopping bags, the Zapata image is almost as famous as that of the Virgin of Guadalupe.<\/p>\n

With so much exposure, you’d think the photograph had little left to reveal to the world. Yet an intriguing question hovers: Who took the picture?<\/p>\n

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