Google Doodle Celebrates Female Photojournalist Gerda Taro
2 August 2018 14:22 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Google today pays tribute to the pioneer of female photojournalist Gerda Taro in a dedicated Google Doodle on August 1, marking her 118th birthday.
The German Gerda Taro is considered to have paved the way for women in her field by covering the frontlines of war. However, her mysterious death at the age of 26 in the Spanish civil war has been up for debate for years.
Gerda Taro was born in Stuttgart, German, in a Jewish family in 1910. However, following the rise of the Nazi, her family was forced to exit Germany and settled in Paris, France in 1934, where she was separated from her family for good.
Gerda started her career as a photojournalist in Paris together with Endre Friedmann, a man she met in France in 1935 and is now known as Robert Capa.
The pair dived into war photography in 1936 when they traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to cover the Spanish civil conflict. However, the vehicle they rode was struck by a tank in Madrid in 1937 and the next day, Gerda Taro died.
ASTARI PINASTHIKA SAROSA