‘A fierce need to be independent’: Gerda Taro biopic pulls photographer out of lover Robert Capa’s shadow
Film premieres at Venice as researchers question who took famous Spanish civil war shot of ‘falling soldier’, credited to the pair’s Robert Capa alias
TL;DR
- Gerda Taro, a fearless female photojournalist, is the subject of a new biopic aiming to bring her work out of Robert Capa's shadow.
- Researchers claim Capa's famous photograph, "The Falling Soldier," was actually taken by Taro, based on technical analysis of the camera used.
- Taro and Capa, both Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism, collaborated under the invented alias 'Robert Capa' to gain respect and higher fees.
- Taro was one of the first women to photograph from the battlefront during the Spanish Civil War, documenting both combat and its impact on civilians.
- The biopic "La Ragazza Con la Leica" explores Taro's desire for independence despite her significant role in creating the Capa persona.
- Taro died in 1937 after being run over by a tank while covering fighting in Spain.