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Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro (1936). Woman training for a Republican militia is a famous photograph by German photographer Gerda Taro (1910–1937) during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, taken on Somorrostro beach in Barcelona.
The title page of Death in the Making (1938), a photo book by Gerda Taro and Robert Capa. Death in the Making is a photographic book by Gerda Taro and Robert Capa that documents the Spanish Civil War. It was published by Covici-Friede while the conflict was still underway in 1938. It is dedicated to Taro, who died in the battlefield the year ...
It tells the story of over 4000 film negatives created during the Spanish Civil War by photographers David Seymour, Gerda Taro, and Robert Capa. The film follows the journey of the photographs from their disappearance at the beginning of World War II to their rediscovery in 2007. Interviews also cover political and personal stories from the era.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:10, 29 June 2008: 475 × 376 (99 KB): AltCtrlDel {{Information |Description={{en|1=Republican Marines playing musical instruments on board the battleship Jaime I, Almería, Spain.
Gerda took the name Gerda Taro and became successful in her own right. She travelled with Capa to Spain in 1936 intending to document the Spanish Civil War. In July 1937, Capa traveled briefly to Paris while Gerda remained in Madrid. She was killed near Brunete during a battle. Capa, who was reportedly engaged to her, was deeply shocked and ...
Photographs by Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour, came to light in early 2007, when three cardboard boxes of negatives, also known as the "Mexican Suitcase", arrived in the mail at the International Center of Photography in New York. [17] The 'suitcase' contained hundreds of Capa's negatives. These films were taken to Mexico at the end of the ...
Capa along with other photographers such as Gerda Taro, David Seymour, Alec Wainman or Kati Horna are often cited as main representatives of Spanish Civil War photography. Gerda Taro died at the Battle of Brunete in 1937. Kati Horna and Alec Wainman documented the effect of war on the non-combatants. [8]