News Summary

• A feature film about Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to be killed while covering war, was given its world premiere at Venice Film Festival this week.
• The Girl With The Leica is based on Helena Janeczek’s 2018 novel of the same name that explores the life of Taro.
• Taro and Endre Friedmann, who would later become known as Robert Capa, met in Paris in 1935.
• Both were Jewish immigrants fleeing the Nazis; they fell in love, began living together, and Friedmann taught Taro photography.