Friday, October 12, 2007

Gerda Taro: The other half of "Capa"

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml?_requestid=39440

This article is a short biography on Gerda Taro who was Robert Capa's on again off again lover. She was killed during combat in 1937 but she was not really remembered until Cornel Capa collected images of Taro's from teh past century and published them very recently. She had a gift and worked as a tag team with Robert Capa to create some of the most awe-inspiring images of war. When people see an image and read the name "Capa" they just assume that it was always Robert's work but in actuality, most of the time, the couple was working together to capture the still.

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