Girl with the Leica
Publisher: Europa Editions, Incorporated
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781609455477
Subjects: Fiction, general
Description: A novel based on the life of Gerda Taro, 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.