The Life of Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Be Killed on the Battlefield, Captured in Venice’s ‘The Girl With the Leica’
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Venice, 2 sets. (askanews) - "La ragazza con la Leica," presented at the 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival as the opening film of the Horizons section, is the story of a great war photographer from the past, Gerda Taro, who makes us reflect on how important the direct testimony of conflicts is. The director Alina Marazzi inspired herself to the novel by Helena Janeczek, winner of the Strega Prize to tell the vitality and courage of this y…
The Life of Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Be Killed on the Battlefield, Captured in Venice’s ‘The Girl With the Leica’
Gerda Taro was only 26 when she became the first female photojournalist to be killed on the battlefield. It would be decades before her true contribution to the artform was acknowledged. Alina Marazzi’s “The Girl With the Leica,” which opens Venice’s Horizons section, seeks to redress this oversight, and pays tribute to Taro’s vivacious personality. […]
The Orizzonti section of Venice 83 was opened by Alina Marazzi's film taken from the book Premio Strega by Helena Janeczek. It is a story about the ambivalence of being spectators and witnesses who do not escape from some overly didactic gesture.
"THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA"
THE STORY – Paris, July 14, 1937. Gerda Taro spends her final day before returning to the Spanish front with Robert Capa and the friends with whom she fled Nazi Germany. As past and present intertwine, the key moments of her life resurface: her political activism in Leipzig, her years in exile in Paris, her […]
The Girl with the Leica | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Coupins D’abord: Marazzi Documents Love in Times of Capa Dually exploring the construction of an image and of a brand, the story of Gerda Taro is inseparable from the creation of “Robert Capa,” the Americanized persona adopted by Hungarian photographer Endre Friedmann as he and Taro sought to make their work more marketable in an increasingly hostile Europe. What begins as a practical disguise moves from complicity to something more complicated:…
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