Out of the Shadows: A Life of Gerda Taro - Couverture rigide

Strachan, Geoffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0285638254 ISBN 13 : 9780285638259

Editeur : Souvenir Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Gerta Pohorylle was born in Stuttgart in 1910. As a young woman she rebelled against Nazism and escaped to France in 1933. In 1934 she met a young photographer called Andre Friedmann and adopted his profession. The two decided to travel to Spain to photograph the Spanish Civil War and took on new identities, Pohrylle became Gerda Taro while Friedmann became Robert Capa.

Gerda Taro is believed to have been the first female photo-journalist to photograph a battle from the front lines while covering the Spanish Civil War, and was the first to die covering a war. Many of the photos attributed to Capa are, in fact, Taro's. She was the great love of Capa's life but her own life was as extraordinary in its intensity and drama.

She was killed in 1937, photographing the battle of Brunete and became a symbol of the antifascist movement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geoffrey Strachan is a noted translator of French and German literature into English. He is best known for his renderings of the novels of French-Russian writer Andreï Makine. In addition, he has also translated works by Yasmina Réza, Nathacha Appanah, Elie Wiesel and Jérôme Ferrari. Uniquely, he has won both the Scott-Moncrieff Prize (for translation from French) and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (for translation from German).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0285638254
• ISBN 13: 9780285638259
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 133
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible