A remarkable historical novel about the first female war photographer: Gerda Taro, the woman behind the pseudonym Robert Capa.
Gerda Taro was the first woman to work as a photographer in war zones. In 1937, on the day she would have turned twenty-seven, she died at the front during the Spanish Civil War. In Het meisje met de Leica, Helena Janeczek brings Gerda Taro vividly to life.
Using her photographs, Janeczek creates an extraordinary portrait of a remarkable woman and her unrelenting struggle against fascism. In 1933, in her early twenties, she distributed anti-Nazi propaganda in her hometown of Leipzig. She was arrested but managed to flee to Paris a year later. There she met photographer Endre Friedmann. He fell hopelessly in love and taught her to use his Leica camera. They decided to publish their photographs under the pseudonym Robert Capa.
Helena Janeczek (1964) achieved her breakthrough with the novel Het meisje met de Leica. More than 200,000 copies were sold in Italy alone, and it was slated to appear in translation around the world.
Het meisje met de Leica — Helena Janeczek
Pages: 336, paperback with a photo section
Price: € 24.99
Publisher: De Bezige Bij. Language: Dutch. This article refers to the Dutch-language edition.
