Google is honoring Gerda Taro, the first female war photographer who worked on the front lines, with a special Google logo. The doodle captures Gerda Taro on a black-and-white film strip.
Gerda Taro died while on the front lines shooting the Republican army retreat at the Battle of Brunete of the Spanish Civil War. She died on July 26, 1937, right before her 27th birthday, in El Escorial, Spain.
Gerda was born in Stuttgart, Germany, but when Adolf Hitler was appointed the chancellor of Germany in 1933, her Jewish family fled to France.
Google wrote this beautiful tribute to her life on the Doodle page:
Though many of her images were misattributed to Capa, Taro became a household name in the few years of her reporting.
The doodle can be found in these regions of Google.com: Argentina, Australia, Chile, China, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
