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Robert Capa (Hungarian, 1913 - 1954)

Gerda Taro at a café with a little dog, Paris 1936

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German socialist and photojournalist Gerda Taro was killed August 1, 1937 while covering the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War for the French Communist newspaper, Ce Soir. The companion of Robert Capa, some of Taro's early work first appeared under his name.

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War photographer Gerda Taro being treated by Janos Kiszely, a volunteer doctor from Hungary. (Spain 1937)

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Gerda Taro na batalla de Brunete

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Gerda Taro with a stone inscribed "PC", Spain, ca. 1937 - by Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), Hungarian

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Little girl resting during the evacuation of the city,

Barcelona, Spain. January, 1939.

A few weeks after the fascist uprising and coup to overthrow Spain’s Popular Front government on July 17, 1936, André Friedmann, under his new pseudonym Robert Capa, rushed to the front lines with his companion, photographer Gerda Taro.

Photographing cities under siege, air raids, and civilians entangled in conflict, their images are some of the most emblematic of the war. In 1938, while Capa had briefly returned to Paris, Taro was killed by an out-of-control tank at the Battle of Brunete, risking her life to document the Republican cause.

David Seymour also documented the entirety of war, from civilian resistance to the fall of the Republic, when half a million Spanish civilians fled across the French border. Together, their testimonies are historical evidence of the most consequential upheaval in Spain’s modern history.

Photo by Robert Capa. Credit: ICP / Magnum Photos

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German war photographer and reporter Gerda Taro, Paris, France, 1936

📷 Robert Capa

International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

Portrait of Robert Capa, Segovia front, May 1937

📷 Gerda Taro

International Center of Photography

Gerda Taro was born 115 years ago, she was the first female war correspondent.

Gerda Taro was a pioneering photojournalist whose short but distinguished career was largely spent on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, which broke out in 1936. Her photographs are a fascinating, if little known, record of a crucial period in war photography. Taro worked in close creative collaboration with Robert Capa, with whom he was not only collaborator but also lover. Their relationship and work together was characterised by a deep emotional and professional rapport until Gerda's tragic death in 1937.