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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. [3]
Mar 8, 2019 · On 1 August 1937, thousands of people lined the streets of Paris to mourn the death of photojournalist Gerda Taro (1910–1937): a 26-year-old Jewish émigré from Leipzig, Germany. Taro had died in Spain, while covering the Battle of Brunete, during the second year of the Spanish Civil War.
Gerda Taro was born in Stuttgart and educated in Leipzig. She left Germany for Paris in 1933 when Hitler became chancellor, and the next year, met Robert Capa. They became lovers, and as she promoted and captioned Capa's photographs, he taught her photographic technique.
Dec 27, 2013 · Gerda Taro spent the last day of her life in the trenches of Brunete, west of Madrid, holed up with Republican fighters. It was a critical moment in the Spanish Civil War - Gen Franco's forces...
German-Jewish photojournalist, the first woman war photographer to die in combat, whose photographs of the Spanish Civil War brought powerful images to the attention of a public unable to fully grasp the growing menace of fascist aggression. Name variations: Gerda Pohorylle; Gerta Taro.
Apr 11, 2014 · Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, in 1936. A year later Taro died while covering the Spanish Civil War -- she was the first female war photographer killed in action. Courtesy Fred Stein Archive....
Gerda Taro (1910– 1937) was a pioneering photojournalist whose brief career consisted almost exclusively of dramatic photographs from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Her photographs were widely reproduced in the French leftist press, and incorporated the dynamic camera angles of New Vision photographyas well as a physical and ...
Aug 1, 2018 · In a tragically short but prolific life the photojournalist Gerda Taro took some of the most arresting war images ever. And yet, unlike her partner Robert Capa, 'the little blonde' has been all...
Mar 16, 2017 · See photos taken by Gerda Taro, the first female war photographer to be killed in the line of work. Taro was 26 when she died covering the Spanish Civil War.
Gerda Taro. Share. Description: In 1934, after reading John Dos Passos' 1919, Gerda Taro left her home in Stuttgart for Paris. There she met the now legendary photographer Robert Capa, with whom she travelled to Spain at the start of the Civil War.
