Gerda Taro was a talented young #
photographer intrepid and ambitious, and one of the first female photo-journalists. Robert Capa was a pioneer of photo-journalism.
Their brave approach to getting pictures of the action from within the action would cost both Taro and Capa their lives – the former killed on the frontline of the Spanish civil war in 1937; the latter blown up by a land mine in Indochina in 1954.
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photo: Taro on the Cordoba front. Spain. September 1936, by Capa.
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photographer intrepid and ambitious, and one of the first female photo-journalists. Robert Capa was a pioneer of photo-journalism.
Their brave approach to getting pictures of the action from within the action would cost both Taro and Capa their lives – the former killed on the frontline of the Spanish civil war in 1937; the latter blown up by a land mine in Indochina in 1954.
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photo: Taro crouching behind an armed soldier on the Cordoba front. Spain. September 1936, by Capa.
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photographer intrepid and ambitious, and one of the first female photo-journalists. Robert Capa was a pioneer of photo-journalism.
Their brave approach to getting pictures of the action from within the action would cost both Taro and Capa their lives – the former killed on the frontline of the Spanish civil war in 1937; the latter blown up by a land mine in Indochina in 1954.
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photo: Taro crouching behind an armed soldier on the Cordoba front. Spain. September 1936, by Capa.
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