Fine Print: Guardia Civil. Deleitosa, Spain, 1951 Portraiture The heavyweight world championship fight

The heavyweight world championship fight saw the ‘unbeatable’ George Foreman go head-to-head with the older Muhammad Ali and would go down as one of the biggest upsets in sporting history

along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock

and it was certainly a conscious effort

With a keen eye for the ‘real’ France

McCurry has said: “What matters most is that each picture stands on its own

Fine Print: Guardia Civil. Deleitosa, Spain, 1951 Portraiture The heavyweight world championship fightLIFE magazine staff photographer W. Eugene Smith traveled to Spain in 1950 to document repression and poverty under dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Smith embedded himself in the small town of Deleitosa. The Spanish Village photo essay appeared in the April 9, 1951, issue of LIFE. The most searing image was of three members of the Guardia Civil, who kept the townspeople in line. The caption read: These stern men, enforcers of national law, are Francos