Happy Birthday, Gerda Taro!

[waday]

She is the Google Doodle of the day today.

Clicking the Doodle shows this:

Gerda Taro - Google Search

From Wikipedia:

Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.​

 

[terri]

I noticed that! Nice!

 

[vintagesnaps]

I wasn't familiar with her but it's an interesting story.

Gerda Taro

 

[limr]

She essentially helped create Robert Capa's entire career.

 

[Gary A.]

Gerda is a little know legend.

 

[vin88]

She is the Google Doodle of the day today.

Clicking the Doodle shows this:

Gerda Taro - Google Search

From Wikipedia:

Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.​

She essentially helped create Robert Capa's entire career.

Gerda is a little know legend.

 

[vin88]

did not Capa die in ww11? he did wounders with a small leica 35 camera. vin

 

[Gary A.]

did not Capa die in ww11? he did wounders with a small leica 35 camera. vin

Capa died in the First Indochina War. I believe by land mine.

 

[waday]

Interesting to see that their lives intertwined.

 

[limr]

did not Capa die in ww11? he did wounders with a small leica 35 camera. vin

Capa died in the First Indochina War. I believe by land mine.

Yes, in 1954. He was photographing French soldiers advancing through a field and stepped on a land mine.

He did have boots on the sand during the 1944 Normandy invasion (can't remember if he was in the first wave on June 6th or if he landed a following day) so it isn't a stretch to think he died then. So many men did.

Gerda Taro was crushed by a collision with a tank during the Spanish Civil War

 

[limr]

Interesting to see that their lives intertwined.

It wasn't just their lives that intertwined, either (winkwink nudgenudge saynomore). They were lovers, and Capa was devastated at her death.

 

[Gary A.]

did not Capa die in ww11? he did wounders with a small leica 35 camera. vin

Capa used Leica during the Spanish Civil War. During WWII and later, he shot Contax.

 

[vin88]

yes, there was a video on them a few years back. the use of a contax I did not know. the contax had a poor shutter but a unique lens mount that was used on the range finder Nikons. both their lenses are almost interchangeable. vin