Edition 2011
Gerda Taro
Born in 1910 in Stuttgart. Deceased in 1937 in Brunete, Spain.
Gerda Taro was one of the first recognised women photo-journalists. Born Gerta Pohorylle in Stuttgart (August 1, 1910–Brunete, Spain, July 26, 1937) and raised in Leipzig in a middle-class Jewish family, she fled to Paris in 1933. She soon met ‘André’ Friedmann and started photo- graphing; in the spring of 1936, they reinvented themselves as Robert Capa and Gerda Taro. In August 1936, Taro and Capa arrived in Spain as freelancers to document the Republican cause for the French press. She became a pioneering photojournalist whose brief career consisted almost exclusively of dramatic photographs from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Her later style is similar to Capa’s, but it differs in her interest in formal compositions and a level of intensity in photographing morbid subjects. Taro worked alongside Capa and the two collaborated closely. While covering the crucial Battle of Brunete, she was struck by a tank and died. Taro was the first female photographer to be killed while reporting on war.
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