Gerda Taro (1910-1937) is a fresh face with fine features, arched eyebrows in pre-war fashion, a beautiful drawn and determined mouth. It is a mixture of eternal youth and nostalgia for days gone by. The very definition of the heroine, launched into the adventure, mowed down by chance, forgotten by fate. This intrepid photographer died at the age of 26 on the Brunete front, at the worst of the war in Spain, on July 26, 1937 at the British hospital in Escorial. His story stopped there and his work, brief and intense, disappeared, buried in that of his legendary companion, Robert Capa (1913-1954), also died in the field of honor of photographers, but in Indochina.
It is from an enigma posed by a photo on its bed of agony that begins
In the footsteps of Gerda Taro
, the unpublished documentary by Camille Ménager.
The young English doctor who gently wipes the blood from his face, John Kiszely, was long unknown to historians of photography.
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