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Gerda Taro (b. 1910, d. 1937)

Republican militia members, Barcelona, August 1936. Rare vintage gelatine silver print, with the credit stamp PHOTO TARO PHOTO CAPA outcrossed and with sticker with credit to Claire, Paris mounted on top also stamped dated and annotated Taro on verso. The print is in reverse. 19,2×18 cm.

Important and famous photograph by Gerda Taro of a couple enjoying a peaceful moment in the sun during the Spanish Civil War in August 1936. This motive was also captured by Taro's colleague and lover, the world famous war photographer Robert Capa.

“it is possibly the only example of exactly the same subject photographed by both Taro and Capa from almost the same angle, in almost the same size of frame [...]The impression is that while Taro took her picture as the couple laughed, Capa has taken his moments after the laughter has finished, when a smile still remains. Although in these early images Capa's superiority as a photographer is generally more frequently in evidence, one would have to say that in this case it is the less experienced Taro who has carried off a fuller, more effective portrait of the couple.” Jane Rogoyska: Gerda Taro, Inventing Robert Capa. 2013, p. 79–81.

Both Taro and Capa's stamp is described in Rogoyska, 2013 p. 11.

This photograph and Capa's equivalent is also described in Susana Fortes novel about the love and life of Robert Capa and Gerda Taro “Waiting for Robert Capa”, 2012. p. 99. Robert Capa's photograph is mentioned in e.g. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Heart of Spain, 1999. p. 14–15.

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Photographs, 17 March 2015

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