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BUDAPEST (AFP) - Budapest's highbrow Museum of Fine Arts has staged its first-ever photography exhibition, causing a sensation with a novel show paying tribute to some of the best artists of the genre. Capa's black-and-white take of the rubble of the Warsaw ghetto in 1945 hangs, for example, alongside a colour shot of the World Trade Center's mangled steel frames after the September 11, 2001 attacks, comparing senseless destruction five decades apart. Leonardo da Vinci 's drawing "Vitruvian Man", a naked man in a circle evoking Renaissance ideals of proportion and man as the measure of all things. Of the five, Capa appears frequently, including two of signature works — the 1944 shot of a French woman, head shorn to mark her as a collaborator in German-occupied France of 1944, holding a baby and trailed by angry villagers out for revenge, and his 1936 picture of a Spanish soldier falling after being shot. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.
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