What You Didn t Know About Gerda Taro
By Karen Corday/Dec. 22, 2020 2:09 pm EDT
Gerda Taro is slightly better known by the alias she shared with her partner, Endre Friedmann. Working together, they were known as the photographer Robert Capa. Per AnOther, Taro was born Gerda Pohorylle to a Jewish German family in 1910. At the age of 23, she was arrested for distributing anti-Nazi materials and fled to Paris, France. There, she met Endree Friedmann, a fellow Jewish refugee who had left Hungary. Their relationship was romantic as well as professional; he taught her photography and she taught him how to make the best of himself, according to Jane Rogoyska, author of