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  1. Gerda Taro with Robert Capa as photojournalist in the Spanish Civil War
    with numerous pictures supplied by the Spanish Civil War Collection Christof Kugler, Frankfurt am Main, the International Center of Photography, New York, and the collection Imre Schaber, Schorndorf
    Author: Schaber, Irme
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart ; London

    Taro is today considered one of the path-breaking pioneers of photography. She captured some of the most dramatic and widely published images of the Spanish Civil War and was the first female photographer to shoot images in the midst of battle. Her... more

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    Taro is today considered one of the path-breaking pioneers of photography. She captured some of the most dramatic and widely published images of the Spanish Civil War and was the first female photographer to shoot images in the midst of battle. Her willingness to work close to the fighting set new standards for war photography and ultimately cost her her life. Taro stands alongside early twentieth century war photographers like Robert Capa and David 'Chim' Seymour. Her death, the first fatality during war coverage, garnered worldwide attention. She had broken new ground, as a woman and as a photographer. Despite this, Gerda Taro has largely fallen into oblivion, especially in comparison to her colleague and partner Robert Capa. Whether gender and religion played a role in this would require a separate investigation. In any case, in her study of women resisting fascism, Ingrid Strobl reaches the conclusion that a combination such as woman-Communist-Jew represented a threefold stigma, and would almost guarantee Taro's exclusion from official history, both in the East and the West. It has been almost twenty years since the first biography of Gerda Taro, written by Irme Schaber, led to Taro's rediscovery as a photographer. Since that time, the discovery of the 'Mexican Suitcase', containing more than 800 of her photos, has made new research on Taro possible. In this new, fully revised biography, Irme Schaber presents groundbreaking insights regarding cameras, copyrights and the circumstances surrounding Taro's death

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783869050133; 3869050136
    Other identifier:
    9783869050133
    Subjects: Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <Motiv>; Bildpublizistik
    Other subjects: Capa, Robert (1913-1954); Taro, Gerta (1910-1937); Taro, Gerta / 1910-1937; Capa, Robert / 1913-1954; Photojournalists / Biography; War photographers / Biography; Spain / History / Civil War, 1936-1939 / Photography; Capa, Robert / 1913-1954; Taro, Gerta / 1910-1937; Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939); Photography; Photojournalists; War photographers; Spain; 1936-1939; Biography; History
    Scope: 151 pages, illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits, 30 cm
    Notes:

    Original German edition: Imre Schaber, Gerda Taro, Fotoreporterin : mit Robert Capa im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg : die Biografie. Jonas verlag, Marburg 2013

    Translated from the German