Gerda Taro
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Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering
Taro in Spain, July 1937, with Leica camera and 5cm Summar lens
A 1937 photograph by Taro of Republican soldiers at the Navacerrada Pass in Spain
Woman training for a Republican militia by Gerda Taro (1936)
Taro's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Designed by Alberto Giacometti, it features the falcon Horus, and the epitaph "So nobody will forget your unconditional struggle for a better world" (in French and Catalan)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares.
Gerda Taro
…her 27th birthday, the French Communist Party gave her a grand funeral in Paris, drawing tens of thousands of people on to the streets, buried her at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and commissioned Alberto Giacometti to create a monument for her grave. In early 2018, a photograph purported to be an image of Taro on her deathbed…
Père Lachaise, Chemin Errazu
The House of Père François de la Chaise, Mont-Louis (17th century)
The cemetery, an English-style park, with the tomb of Héloïse and Abélard (top right) (1815)
Crematorium and columbarium building