Photograph of Gerda Taro colored by Christos Kaplanis.
Spanish Civil War, 1937.
Madrid, Photo by Gerda Taro, 1937
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the front line in a war.