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Searching For Gerda Taro

Photography (collection) • 57m

Directed by Camille Ménager • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes

SEARCHING FOR GERDA TARO celebrates the life and work of Taro — a charismatic Jewish refugee from Germany, an anti-fascist, and a trailblazing photographer whose work would be forgotten for decades.

In 1935, Taro (then going by her birth name, Gerta Pohorylle), met Endre Friedmann, a Jewish photographer from Hungary trying to make a name for himself in Paris. They fell in love and moved in together. The next year, they changed their names to Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. Capa taught Taro photography. Taro in turn helped sell his photos and build his reputation. Together, they went to Spain to report on the civil war from the front lines, a war she would cover for only a year before she herself would die — the first female war photographer to be killed on assignment.

SEARCHING FOR GERDA TARO shares dozens of stunning archival images by and of Taro. We come to understand her life and work through conversations with curators, authors, and descendants of those who knew her. For decades, her legacy was wrapped up with Capa’s, many of her photos seemingly lost. But with the discovery of thousands of her negatives in the mid-1990s, Taro can finally enjoy the credit she deserves as a brilliant photographer in her own right.

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20th century, antisemitism, area studies, art and architecture, citizenship, communication and media studies, europe, european studies, expository, france, franco, germany, history, icarus films, journalism and the press, judaism, ovid, photography, political philosophy, politics and political science, refugee, robert capa, s_0001, s_0041, s_0161, s_0220, s_0230, s_0286, s_0339, s_0396, s_0469, s_0532, s_0644, searching for gerda taro, social issues, social movements and activism, spain, spanish civil war, the politics of art, title_s, visual arts, war, war and peace, western europe, world regions, world war i

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