Word: gerda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them off as the work of one Capa, a talented visitor from America. It worked in reverse, too, when they sold Capa to U.S. publishers as a talented Frenchman. Eventually, after his girl Gerda was killed in the Spanish...