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 ...

As in Capa’s time, however, the power of the image as a weapon is not to be underestimated. This Is War! Robert Capa at Work; Gerda Taro: A Retrospective; and On the Subject of War (featuring works by ...

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, ...

Gerda Taro was born in Germany, Robert Capa in Hungary. They met in exile in Paris in 1934 and became lovers. They were both young Jews fleeing the Nazis in their home countries.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.