Gerda Taro (real name Gerda Pohorylles; 1 August 1910, Stuttgart - 27 July 1937, near Brunete, Spain) was a German war photographer of Polish origins, and close friend, partner, companion,
and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War.
A left-wing militant, Gerda Taro left Stuttgart for Paris in 1934, where she met Robert Capa. They worked together to cover the events surrounding the
arrival to power of the Popular Front in the 30s in France.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Gerda Taro went to Spain, accompanied by Capa
and others, to cover the events. She acquired the nickname of "La pequeña rubia."
She died on 27 July 1937, the day after being severely wounded
on the front, when a Republican tank collided with her car during the retreat from the Battle
of Brunete. On August 1, on what would have been her 27th birthday, the French Communist party gave her a grand funeral in
Paris, buried her at Le Père Lachaise
Cemetery, and commissioned Alberto Giacometti to create a monument for her
grave.[1]
On 26 September 2007, the International Center of Photography opened the first major U.S. exhibition of Taro's
photographs.
References
- ^ Robert Whelan, "Robert Capa, the definitive collection", p8, Phaidon press
2001 ISBN 978-0-7148-4449-7
- Irme Schaber, "Gerta Taro: Fotoreporterin im spanischen Bürgerkrieg", Jonas (Marburg, 1994) ISBN 3-89445-175-0
- Irme Schaber, translation by Pierre Gallissaires, "Gerda Taro : Une photographe révolutionnaire dans la guerre
d'Espagne", Editions du Rocher (Paris 2006) ISBN 2-268-05727-5
- Francois Maspero, "L'ombre d'une photographe, Gerda Taro", Le Seuil (Paris, 2006)
ISBN 2-02-085817-7
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