• GIRL WITH THE LEICA (THE) - JANECZEK HELENA
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    <DescrizioneEstesa>Gerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. August 1, 1937, Paris. Taro's twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann, who would henceforth assume the moniker Robert Capa alone, leads the procession. He taught Taro to use a Leica. Together, they left for the Spanish Civil War to bear witness to fascist war crimes. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, in the procession: Ruth Cerf, Taro's old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure who is being mourned by the multitudes. Gerda Taro is at the heart of this kaleidoscopic novel but another of its main characters is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century's ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age's quintessential art form. "The girl with the Leica" è la storia di Gerda Taro, la prima fotografa caduta su un campo di battaglia. È il suo battito a tenere insieme un flusso che allaccia epoche e luoghi lontani, restituendo vita alle istantanee di questi ragazzi degli anni Trenta alle prese con la crisi economica, l'ascesa del nazismo, l'ostilità verso i rifugiati che in Francia colpiva soprattutto chi era ebreo e di sinistra, come loro. Ma per chi l'ha amata, quella giovinezza resta il tempo in cui, finché Gerda è vissuta, tutto sembrava ancora possibile.


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    Titolo
    GIRL WITH THE LEICA (THE)
    Autore
    JANECZEK HELENA
    Editore
    EUROPA EDITIONS
    Data Pubblicazione
    10-2019
    ISBN
    978160945547
    Pagine
    304
    N. volumi
    1