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Meanwhile Rober Capa , Susana HEAVY

The inspiring story of the short life of the companion of Robert Capa, the photographer Gerta Taro .

A young man, white shirt, bandolier belt and the gun in hand, rolling down a hill and thrown back, in a final movement, arrested at full speed by the impact of a bullet. Everyone has this picture in mind of Robert Capa not only because it represents the ultimate moment of death of a man and the horror of war but also because it was controversial: some argue that it is only staging. Capa subsequently take thousands of photos and will of all conflicts, using his camera as a weapon against the oppressor. Then he founded, with others, the Magnum agency. But this picture is one that can go anywhere and that will haunt him forever.

It took a lot of courage to go to Spain during the civil war was raging. It is precisely for this clash between soldiers Republicans Franco's militias and that this shot was taken. He had more courage even when one was a woman. For more than life Capa is one of Gerta Pohorylle that tells Susanna STRONG. Gerta, a young Polish Jewish émigré, revolves in Parisian intellectual circles. There she met another Jewish refugee, Andrew Friedman, and falls in love with the impetuous young photographer and skinned. It will teach him photography, she learns to manage his image. Together they create the character of Robert Capa, supposedly known American photographer, who will eventually become permanent identity of Andre Friedman. Gerta itself took the name of Gerta Taro. And together, they will leave Spain, see up close the war which caused so many victims. "When I think of all the wonderful people who died during that war, Greta wrote in his diary on the morning of his death, I feel, one way or another, that it is not just that I'm still alive ".
Gerta and Robert are madly in love and yet, motivated both by a terrible need for independence, they often leave for better return. Except once, last ...
"The character of Robert Capa had already caught my attention, relates in his afterword, the English novelist (...) More than once I thought of writing something about his life. It seemed to me that this country, Spain, owed him at least a novel. He owed them for both. For me it was a conviction, as if he was indebted to them ". Behind the beautiful love story in question, raised by a write sober and touching the second world war looming, anti-Semitism that exists already in all of Europe. There is talk also of course the English war, which was so little about and which has attracted so little reaction from neighboring countries at the time. Above it comes to men and women who fought against fascism, which have all their lives defending their ideals and who thought that a good photograph, the most telling testimony of the horror of the world was worth living.

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Reference:
Susanna STRONG, Robert Capa Meanwhile, novel translated from English by Julie Marcot, Editions Heloise d'Ormesson, 2011.