Gerda Taro
German photographer, best known for her reporting on the Spanish Civil War (1910-1937) · Germany · Artists · Died at 26
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Something wrong?She was the first woman to die photographing war - killed on the Spanish frontline in 1937 at twenty-six - but for years her images were credited to the alias she shared with her partner, "Robert Capa."
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Gerta Pohorylle was born in Germany on 1 August 1910. Jewish and facing rising intolerance in Europe, she reinvented herself as Gerda Taro and became a war photographer. She and her companion Endre Friedmann created a joint alias, "Robert Capa," to sidestep prejudice and court American buyers - which meant much of what the world knew as early Capa was actually hers. She worked the Spanish Civil War frontlines, camera in hand. On 26 July 1937, she was killed in action, the first female photojournalist to die covering combat. The shared name outlived her; the work did too.
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