Gerda Taro

In her brief but dramatic career, Gerda Taro (1910-1937) made some of the most striking photographs to come from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. The following selections, drawn from ICP's collection, are also included in the first full-scale retrospective.

72 Items
  • [Republican soldier playing the bugle, Valencia, Spain]
  • [Republic militiawomen training on the beach, outside Barcelona]
  • [Republican militiawoman training on the beach, outside Barcelona]
  • [Republican militiamembers and Popular Front car, Barcelona]
  • [Two boys on a barricade, Barcelona]
  • [Boy wearing cap of the FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation), Barcelona]
  • [Republican militiaman and child at bullfight and military show, Barcelona]
  • [Three men in the window of the Hotel Colón, headquarters of the PSUC (United Socialist Party of Catalonia), Barcelona]
  • [Republican militiamen, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers bearing a flag, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers loading artillery, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers in a trench, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Republican militiaman with group of boys, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Militiaman clearing brush, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Agricultural workers with sieve, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Agricultural worker on bales, Aragón front, Spain]
  • [Four men in a military office, Spain]
  • [Haircut at the headquarters of the 5th Regiment, Madrid]
  • [Refugees from Málaga in Almería, Spain]
  • [Child refugee from Málaga in Almería, Spain]
  • [Battleship Jaime I, Almería, Spain]
  • [Marine with gun on the deck of the battleship Jaime I, Almería, Spain]
  • [Marines playing musical instruments on board the Battleship Jaime I, Almería, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers in bunkers, University City, Madrid]
  • [Republican soldier stepping through a hole in a wall, University City, Madrid]
  • [Blind street musicians, Madrid]
  • [Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid]
  • [Republican soldier reading, French Bridge, Madrid front]
  • [Republican soldiers with binoculars, Jarama front, Spain]
  • [General mobilization, Valencia, Spain]
  • [Recruitment and training of the new People's Army, Valencia]
  • [Recruitment and training of the new People's Army, Valencia]
  • [Funeral of General Pavol Lukács, Valencia, Spain]
  • [Corpses in the morgue after the bombing, Valencia, Spain]
  • [Air raid victim in the morgue, Valencia]
  • [Air raid victim in the morgue, Valencia]
  • [Air raid victims in the morgue, Valencia]
  • [Air raid victim in hospital, Valencia]
  • [Air raid victim in hospital, Valencia]
  • [Robert Capa, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Robert Capa, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Three Republican soldiers on a field telephone, Navacerrada Pass, Segovia front , Spain]
  • [Wounded Republican soldier, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Tank, Navacerrada Pass, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Wounded Republican soldier being carried on a stretcher, Navacerrada Pass, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Men with wounded Republican soldier on a stretcher, Navacerrada Pass, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers with bloodied stretcher, Segovia front, Spain]
  • [Worker in a munitions factory, Madrid]
  • [Workers in a munitions factory, Madrid]
  • [Republican dinamiteros, Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid]
  • [Republican dinamiteros, Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid]
  • [Republican dinamiteros, Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid]
  • [Children amid rubble of bombed buildings, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers running, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain, June 1937]
  • [Republican soldiers, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers, La Granjuela, Córdoba front, Spain]
  • [Ernst Busch, Erich Weinert, and other attendees at the International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, Valencia]
  • [André Malraux (left) and Ilya Ehrenburg (center) at the Second  International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, Valencia]
  • [International Congress of Writers' excursion to the Guadalajara front, Spain]
  • [International Congress of Writers' excursion to the Guadalajara front, Spain]
  • [Republican soldier, Brunete, Spain]
  • [Republicans in front of city sign, Brunete, Spain]
  • [Enemy flag captured at the battle of Brunete presented to Second International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture, Madrid]
  • [Enemy flag captured in Battle of Brunete presented at International Congress of Antifascist Writers, Madrid]
  • [Two Republican soldiers in front of wall with rightist slogans and symbols, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Tank and other military vehicles, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers in trench, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Republican soldier behind barricade, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Republican soldiers, Battle of Brunete, Spain]
  • [Burning truck, Battle of Brunete, Spain]