Gerda Taro; Inventing Robert Capa by Rogoyska, Jane - SEALED UNREAD NEW - 2013

Random House UK, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Random House UK, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Record # 352693

New York: Random House , 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A reexamination of the woman who created the legend of Robert Capa, the world'sfirst female photojournalist to die in combat, Gerda Taro. In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish émigrée, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, André Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa—and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation. When Gerda was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of 26, Robert Capa was her most notable mourner—his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Capa's story. Seventy years after her death a long-lost suitcase was discovered in Mexico, containing thousands of… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.