Gerda Taro
Women training for Republican militia in Barcelona, August 1936
Taro, who was Jewish, fled Germany when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. She met a young photographer named Endre Friedmann in Paris, and together, they began to release photographs under the joint pseudonym Robert Capa. Friedmann later retained the name for himself. The two covered left-leaning Republican factions during the Spanish Civil War together until Taro’s death in 1937, by which time Taro had established her standing as both a champion of anti-fascism and as one of the first women to photograph the front lines of war.