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Gerda Taro - With Robert Capa as Photojournalist in the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
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Gerda Taro - With Robert Capa as Photojournalist in the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
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Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its
way from the city center eastward toward the Pere-Lachaise
Cemetery, accompanied by the sounds of Chopin's funeral march. The
photojournalist Gerda Taro had been killed in the Spanish Civil War
a few days earlier. Thousands come to pay their last respects to
the emigree from Hitler's Germany. The poet Louis Aragon speaks at
the graveside, young girls hold up a large portrait of the
deceased. Why did the French Communist Party honor a foreigner -
one who was not even a member of the Party - with a "first-class"
burial? Ernest Hemingway is said to have found Gerda Taro while
searching for "better Germans", the term he used to describe
Germans fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Taro is today considered one of the path-breaking pioneers of
photography. She captured some of the most dramatic and widely
published images of the Spanish Civil War and was the first female
photographer to shoot images in the midst of battle. Her
willingness to work close to the fighting set new standards for war
photography and ultimately cost her her life. Taro stands alongside
early twentieth century war photographers like Robert Capa and
David "Chim" Seymour. Her death, the first fatality during war
coverage, garnered worldwide attention. She had broken new ground,
as a woman and as a photographer. Despite this, Gerda Taro has
largely fallen into oblivion, especially in comparison to her
colleague and partner Robert Capa. Whether gender and religion
played a role in this would require a separate investigation. In
any case, in her study of women resisting fascism, Ingrid Strobl
reaches the conclusion that a combination such as
woman-Communist-Jew represented a threefold stigma, and would
almost guarantee Taro's exclusion from official history, both in
the East and the West. It has been almost twenty years since the
first biography of Gerda Taro, written by Irme Schaber, led to
Taro's rediscovery as a photographer. Since that time, the
discovery of the "Mexican Suitcase", containing more than 800 of
her photos, has made new research on Taro possible. In this new,
fully revised biography, Irme Schaber presents groundbreaking
insights regarding cameras, copyrights and the circumstances
surrounding Taro's death.
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