The Woman Who Was Robert Capa
Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.
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6 min readJan 8, 2018
The year is 1936. On the outskirts of Barcelona, a small plane crash-lands. Miraculously, everyone on board survives, including two photographers, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. They were risking their lives to cover the Spanish Civil War that had…
