WASHINGTON — It’s simple to access news and photographs from around the world today. But in the 1930s, the photographs by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro helped communicate impressive sights from ...

At the age of 26, Gerda Taro was just starting to make a name for herself and had already helped launch the career of the young Robert Capa. Gerda Taro spent the last day of her life in the ...

Robert Capa and Gerda Taro are considered to be the founders of modern war photography. In September 1936, Capa took one of the most famous wartime Pictures in history: "Falling soldier." ...

Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war, and the first to die doing so, ... Endre became Robert Capa, and Gerta took the name Gerda Taro, ...

Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and the Invention of Modern Photojournalism Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. Holt, $22.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9835-8 ...

Taro died in 1937 while covering the Spanish Civil War and Capa was killed in 1954 by a landmine at Thai Binh in Vietnam. This exhibition commemorates both photographers in a dual retrospective ...

Where: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. When: Aug. 1 through Sept. 26 How much: Free Andre Friedmann, known to the world as Robert Capa, and Gerda Taro lived the kind ...

Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa This particular book about Taro takes an especially close look at the professional and romantic relationship between Taro and Robert Capa (née André Friedmann ...

The situation was more confusing than it appears, because Robert Capa did not exist except as a byline and was the collective nom de plume of two of the photographers: Andre Friedmann and Gerda Taro.