Gerda Taro

Gerta Pohorylle, known as Gerda Taro, was born in 1910 in Stuttgart, Germany, and died in the summer of 1937 at El Escorial in Spain. 

She was one of the first photojournalists, best known for her photographs of the Spanish Civil War. She was the companion of war photographer Robert Capa, whose pseudonym she invented and helped launch his career. 

She was the first war photographer to be killed while reporting on the Spanish Civil War on the Brunete front in 1937, at the age of twenty-six. 

The belated discovery of many of her negatives in the ‘Mexican suitcase’ in 2007 gave a new dimension to her work, which had long been underestimated. 

She is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where she took refuge in 1933 to escape Nazism.