Here is a selection of photographs by Gerda Taro:

1. Photo from Barcelona at the outbreak of the war, 1936, that shows two little boys in caps above a crumbling wall that has been reinforced with a sandbag.

2. Refugees from Malaga in Almeria, 1937: an old man with bandaged head and beret; a woman standing; several children on a folded up mattress; an old woman

3. Crowd at the morgue gates following a bombing in Valencia, 1937

4. A 1937 photograph by Taro of 2 Republican soldiers at the Navacerrada Pass in Spain carrying a wounded soldier by stretcher.

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Today in Labor History July 26, 1937: Photojournalist and antifascist Gerda Taro was killed while covering the Spanish Civil War. She was 26. Thousands attended her funeral. Tara was a German Jew, who had to flee Germany after being imprisoned for her anti-Nazi activism. While living in exile, in France, she met another Jewish exile and photojournalist, Endre Ernő Friedmann. Together they published their work under the pseudonym Robert Capa. Scholar Hanno Hardt described their work as such: "Taro and Capa helped invent the genre of modern war photography while fueling the vicarious experience of the spectator by offering an approximation of life in the conflict zone."[

After Taro’s death, Friedmann would retain the name Robert Capa and go on to become recognized as one of the greatest photojournalists ever. In 1947, he cofounded the great Magnum photojournalism cooperative, which included other great photographers, like Maria Eisner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, and William and Rita Vandivert.

Madrid and Paris both named streets for Taro, Calle Gerda Taro and Rue Gerda Taro, respectively.
Helena Janeczek portrayed Taro in her historical novel, The Girl With the Leica (1917).

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#linkeBücher Ein tolles antifaschistisches Foto- und Geschichtsbuch ist bei @hentrichverlag erschienen: „Freiheit im Fokus – Gerda Taro und Robert Capa in Leipzig„. Die Kunsthistorikerin und Taro-Expertin Irme Schaber nimmt die Stadt Leipzig zum Ausgangspunkt, um das Leben und Werk der beiden KriegsfotografInnen vorzustellen.

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Woman training for a Republican militia in Barcelona, 1936, by Gerda Taro

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Today in Labor History March 19, 1933: Nazis arrested Jewish antifascist photographer Gerda Taro and interrogated her about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She had previously been arrested for distributing anti-fascist literature. The Nazis eventually let her go and she fled to France, and then Yugoslavia. She died at the age of 26, photo-documenting the Spanish Republican war against Franco and the fascists. Some said that she was responsible, along with Robert Capa, of inventing the genre of war photography. Capa was actually the nom de guerre of Taro’s lover, Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew who taught her the art of photography and who later went on to found Magnum Photos, along with French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. “Capa” was Friedmann’s street name, back in Hungary. It meant “shark.”

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Freiheit im Fokus – #GerdaTaro und #RobertCapa erfanden die moderne Kriegsfotografie #SWRKultur

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