TARO, Gerda

About the photographer, Gerda TARO (1910-1936)

Born as Gerta Pohorylle, the German photographer fled the Nazis to Paris in 1933, where she changed her name to Gerda TARO. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, she traveled there to document it with photographs from the beginning. Gerda TARO filmed and photographed at almost every scene of this war. She was the first war photographer to take pictures in the midst of the fighting and the first to be killed while reporting on the war. She was only 26 years old. She created some of the most dramatic and widely published images of the Spanish Civil War.

Photo books by and about the work of Gerda TARO

'The Mexican Suitcase: The Legendary Spanish Civil War Negatives of Robert Capa, Gerda Tarot, and David Seymour' (2010); 'Gerda Taro, photo reporter: With Robert Capa in the Spanish Civil War. The Biography '(2013); 'Photographers at the Front: From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus / Woman War Photographers' (2019)