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Gerda Taro

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  • 57'
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Synopsis

Gerda Taro (1910-1937) was the first woman photojournalist to die in the line of duty, on the eve of her 27th birthday. Long known as the companion of Robert Capa - whose legend she helped to create - she was herself a war reporter. Her powerful images are a precious testimony to the Spanish Civil War and reveal a particular gift for photography. A convinced revolutionary, passionately committed to fighting fascism, she was killed just as her career was taking off. This documentary pays tribute to her through an in-depth portrait and raises the essential question of the recurrent oblivion to which history has subjected many women photographers.

What you will find in this film

One (other) woman photographer forgotten by history • war photography •the Spanish Civil War • the Leica revolution • Europe between the wars • a duo of photographers on stage and in life

Keywords

Reportage & Society Analogue Photography The Artist at Work History of Photography
For her, the profession did not consist of blind, mechanical activity. It was (...) a thoughtful passion in the service of a new humanity.
She had it all: the romantic aura, the youth... her story sounds like something out of a novel. But I still think that what was fundamental about her, what cost her her life, what marked a before and after, what created a myth in photojournalism, was her work.

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The authors/artists

Gerda Taro
Photographer
Camille Ménager
Film director

Further exploration

Bibliography

Resources

GERDA TARO: WITH ROBERT CAPA AS PHOTOJOURNALIST IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR ; Irme Schaber ; Edition Axel Menges ; 2018 

GERDA TARO : INVENTING ROBERT CAPA ; Jane Rogoyska ; Jonathan Cape ; 2013 

OUT OF THE SHADOWS : A LIFE OF GERDA TARO ; Geoffrey Strachan ; Profile Books Ltd ; 2008

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire/gerda-taro-et-robert-capa-une-passion-photographique-6836313 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spanish-civil-war-gerda-taro/id1526490428?i=1000529036756 

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/gerda-taro?all/all/all/all/0 

https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/gerda-taro-first-woman-war-photographer-to-die-in-the-field/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3fTw_D3l10