Google Doodle celebrates first female war photojournalist to report from the frontline

You might not be altogether familiar with the face on today’s Google Doodle. But, you should be.

Gerda Taro, who’s depicted in the doodle, is considered to be the first female journalist to report from the frontline. She was a fearless pioneer who tragically died in the field when reporting on the Spanish Civil War.

Today 1 August 2018, marks 108 years since her birth in Stuttgart, Germany in 1910.

Per a Google blog, Taro “moved to France shortly after Adolf hitler was appointed the chancellor of Germany 1933.” There, she learned the rudiments of photography from fellow refugee Robert Capa. Read more…

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