Robert Capa
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Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Capa on assignment in Spain, using a Eyemo 35 mm movie camera, photographed by Gerda Taro
A sculpture by Igael Tumarkin inspired by Death of a Loyalist Soldier
A display of some of Capa's works
Capa House in Leipzig 2015
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
Robert Capa
…in college. He witnessed Adolf Hitler's rise to power, which led him to move to Paris. There he met and began to work with his professional partner Gerda Taro, and they began to publish their work separately. Capa's close friendship with David Seymour-Chim was captured in Martha Gellhorn's novella Two by Two…
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)