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"In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish émigrée, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, André Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda TARO & Robert CAPA – and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation.
When Gerda TARO was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of twenty-six, Robert CAPA was her most notable mourner – his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Robert CAPA's story. Seventy years after her death a long-lost suitcase was discovered in Mexico, containing thousands of negatives by Robert CAPA and Gerda TARO. Most astonishingly of all, the ‘Mexican suitcase’ showed that photographs that had been attributed previously to Robert CAPA were, in fact, the work of Gerda TARO.
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The out-of-print photo & text book 'Gerda Taro. Inventing Robert Capa', edited by Jane Rogoyska traces the life of Gerda TARO and reveals the depth of her relationship with Robert CAPA. Charismatic and extraordinary, they epitomised one of the most tumultuous periods of the century." (© Cape, 2013)