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Book - Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 

In Paris in 1934, a young and beautiful Jewish émigrée, Gerda Pohorylles, met a Hungarian political exile, André Friedmann. They reinvented themselves as the photographers Gerda Taro and Robert Capa – and he would become the most important photojournalist of his generation.

When Gerda was killed in the Spanish Civil war at the age of twenty-six, Robert Capa was her most notable mourner – his grief was beyond control. Her funeral drew crowds of thousands and she became a hero of the political left. Despite the legend that was built around her, she subsequently became a mere footnote in Capa's story.... 

Collection Capa 1934

A portrait of Robert CAPA taken in Paris at the end of 1934. 
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The Student Card Library Card of Andre Friedmann (later to be... 
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Collection Capa 1935

FRANCE. Paris. A portrait of Robert Capa taken in the autumn... 
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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

FRANCE. Paris. 1936. German war photographer and reporter Gerda... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SWITZERLAND. Geneva. June, 1936. A Spanish journalist being arrested... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

Republican militiamembers and Popular Front car, Barcelona, August... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

Republican militiawoman training on the beach, outside Barcelona,... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. Republican soldiers training. August 1936. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. August 1936. Republican militiamembers. 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. August, 1936. Republican militia members.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Barcelona. August, 1936. Man and boy wearing militia clothing.... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

Three men in the window of the Hotel Colón, headquarters of the... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

Two boys on a barricade, Barcelona, August 1936 

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SPAIN. Aragon or Cordoba Front. August-September, 1936. Photographer... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Aragon Front. August, 1936. Agricultural workers loading... 

David Seymour 1936

SPAIN. Aragon or Cordoba Front. August-September, 1936. Photographer... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Near Huesca. Aragon front. Republican soldiers. August-September... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. 1936.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Cordoba Front. Early September, 1936. Three loyalist militiamen.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Madrid. November-December 1936. Republican soldiers. 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Almería. February 1937. Refugees from Málaga. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Murcia. February 1937. Refugees from Malaga. 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Almeria. February, 1937. Refugees from Malaga.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Almeria. February, 1937. Child refugee from Malaga.

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. University City, Madrid. February, 1937. Republican officer... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Republican soldier reading, French Bridge, Madrid front, 1937... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Republican soldiers with binoculars, Jarama front, Spain, March... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Republican soldiers in bunkers, University City, Madrid, February... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Recruitment and training of the new People's Army, Valencia,... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. March, 1937. General mobilization.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Recruitment and training of the new People's Army, Valencia,... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 2008

SPAIN. Valencia. March, 1937. Training of the New People's Army.... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. March, 1937. Two leaders of the New People's... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

Photographer Gerda TARO.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Crowd outside morgue after air raid.... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Air raid victim in a morgue.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Air raid victims in the morgue, Valencia, May 1937 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. May, 1937. Air raid victim in a hospital.

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Robert Capa, Segovia front, Spain, late May/early June 1937 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Navacerrada Pass, Segovia Front. Late May - early June,... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Navacerrada Pass. Late May/early June, 1937. Republican... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Navacerrada Pass. May-June 1937. Segovia front. Republican... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Navacerrada Pass. May-June 1937. Segovia front. Republican... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Navacerrada Pass. May-June 1937. Republican soldiers with... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Workers in a munitions factory, Madrid, June 1937 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Madrid. June, 1937. Dinamiteros, bomb-throwers, in Carabanchel.... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Republican dinamiteros, Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid, June... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. June 16, 1937. Funeral of General Lukacs. (From... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. June 16, 1937. Funeral of General Lukacs. (From... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Republican soldiers, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain, June... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 2008

SPAIN. Cordoba Front. June, 1937. Rober CAPA (left) with the... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 2008

SPAIN. Cordoba Front. June, 1937. Members of the Chapaiev Battalion... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Ernst Busch, Erich Weinert, and other attendees at the International... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Valencia. The International Congress of Anti-Fascists... 

Collection Capa 1937

SPAIN. Gerda TARO on the Spanish front at Guadalajara in 1937... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Brunete. July, 1937. Republican soldiers in front of a... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Brunete. July, 1937. Young Republican soldiers. (From... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Brunete. Republican soldiers standing with their guns.... 
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Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 2008

SPAIN. Brunete. July, 1937. Republican soldiers resting. (From... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Brinete. July. 1937. CLAUD COCKBURN(left) and FRED COPEMAN,... 
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