![]() The troops loved her and she kept pushing. "But she got into this conviction that she had to bear witness. It was a far too dangerous part of the battle," Jane Rogoyska, author of a recent biography of the photographer, told the Guardian earlier this year. Eventually she adopted the professional name Gerda Taro, although much of her work was published under the pseudonym Robert Capa - the name adopted by Friedmann.ĭuring the Spanish Civil War, her photos were in high demand by the international press, and her reports from the Brunete region for Ce Soir, a leftist French newspaper, were the only coverage to contradict Nationalist propaganda that the region was under its control. After settling in Paris in 1934 she began studying photography under Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian photojournalist who would also become her romantic companion. To honor Taro's dedication to delivering images of the war to the world, Wednesday's Google Doodle turned its focus on the pioneering photojournalist on her 108th birthday.īorn Gerta Pohorylle in 1910 in Stuttgart, Germany, she fled Hitler's Germany after being detained for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda in 1933. Widely considered the first female photojournalist to cover a war, she was also the first to die doing so. Taro fearlessly turned her lens on conflict to capture arresting but sensitive photographs of fighting at the front in the Spanish Civil War. Gerda Taro took some of the most dramatic wartime photos ever seen before her life was cut tragically short. ![]()
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