Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa
by Rogoyska, Jane
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780224097130
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New York: Random House , 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A reexamination of the woman who created the legend of Robert Capa, the world'sfirst female photojournalist to die in combat, Gerda Taro. In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish émigrée, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, André Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa—and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation. When Gerda was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of 26, Robert Capa was her most notable mourner—his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Capa's story. Seventy years after her death a long-lost suitcase was discovered in Mexico, containing thousands of negatives by Capa and Taro. Most astonishingly of all, the "Mexican suitcase" showed that photographs that had been attributed previously to Capa were, in fact, the work of Taro. Jane Rogoyska's book will trace Taro's life and reveal the depth of her relationship with Capa. Charismatic and extraordinary, they epitomized one of the most tumultuous periods of the century. Record # 352692
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- Title
- Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa
- Author
- Rogoyska, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 022409713X
- ISBN 13
- 9780224097130
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Photography, Women, , .
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