Retrospective exhibitions of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro are opened in Barcelona
Photo © Fred Stein. The photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. Paris, 1936. Two exhibitions organized by the International Center of Photography in New York (ICP) started in Barcelona, after being displayed NY and London. The show entitled "Gerda Taro (1910-1937)" and "Esto es la war! Robert Capa en Acción "will remain in the MNAC until the 27th of September. For the first time a retrospective of photographer Gerda Taro in Spain is presented. A pioneer in photojournalism of war, Gerda had his fame eclipsed that of her lover, the legendary Robert Capa. Gerda died in 1937 crushed by a tank while covering a battle. The exhibition displays 150 Robert Capa's photographs taken in wars around the world as a war photographer during the 1930s and '40s, making him one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century. Capa was one of the first to start using small cameras such as the famous Leica, which gave him great mobility. In 1954, at the invitation of Life magazine, Robert Capa was covering the war in Indochina (later known as Vietnam), following the French forces fighting communist guerrillas. On May 25, in the south, near the village of Thai Binh, Robert Capa jumped the French army truck and plunged into the woods to portray soldiers of the maneuvers in the Red River delta, when he stepped on a land mine that tore his legs. Robert died in a pool of blood with the Leica in hand. In the two exhibitions will be shown images of Mexican suitcase found with 126 rolls of 35 mm negatives belonging to Robert Capa and Gerda Taro.
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