Today's Google Doodle in Germany is dedicated to Gerda Taro (pseudonym of Gerta Pohorylle), the German photographer considered to have been the first woman to work as a photojournalist in war zones and to be killed on duty.
[A big smile for the camera!
Google Doodle dedicated to Gerda Taro
on August 1st, 2018]
Activist against Nazism and Fascism, picture editor, photographer and furthermore personal assistant, muse and companion of Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann) during the last two years of her life, Gerda Taro had to leave Germany in 1929 because of her Jewish heritage and worked with many important newspapers, also documenting the Spanish Civil War with David Seymour and with Capa himself.
Many pictures and negatives that she signed together with his personal and professional partner, seen as lost for decades, has been found in Mexico in 2007, making it possible to dedicate her prestigious art exhibitions.
[Petite, strong and brave:
Gerda Taro, 1910-1937]
La pequeña rubia ("The little blonde") was only 26 years old when she died during the Spanish Civil War, about to turn 27 a couple of days later, on August 1st, 1937.
Her life has been portrayed in documentaries and books and, after her death, she has been celebrated by the French Communist Party as a hero and buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, where there is a statue created for her by Alberto Giacometti.
What a woman!
Tags: Google Doodle, Gerda Taro, Robert Capa
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