Gerda Taro was the professional and personal companion of Robert Capa from my post last week. She was born into a Jewish family in Germany in 1910 and is well known, similar to Capa, for her wartime photography. With the emergence of the Nazi party Taro was separated from her family and never saw them again.
Taro in 1937
After her exile from Germany, Taro moved to Paris and fell in love with Endre Friedmann, who also happened to be Jewish. Together they began publishing under the name Robert Capa in order to circumvent anti-Semitic publishers and sell their news photographes. The cover did not last long, however but the photos spoke for themselves.
Taro in the Battle of Brunete in 1936
Taro is best known for covering the Spanish Civil War from the front lines. She died, like Capa, on the battlefield. Towards the end of the Civil War, Taro was photographing wounded soldiers on a truck bed when an enemy tank collided with the vehicle. She died of sever wounds the following day at the age of 27.
Taro negative from the 1930s
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