1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1910–1937 · GERMANY
Gerda Taro
Front-line reportage from inside the Spanish Civil War.
- Born
- 1910
- Died
- 1937
- Country
- Germany
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1936Spanish Civil War (Barcelona, with Capa and Chim)
- 1937Battle of Brunete
WHY THEY MATTER
Regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the front line of a war; professional partner of Robert Capa in Spain.
THE LIFE
Taro was born Gerta Pohorylle in Stuttgart and fled Nazi Germany for Paris, where she met Robert Capa. The two worked together and she helped build his name before establishing her own. She covered the Spanish Civil War from the front line. She was killed near Brunete in 1937, aged twenty-six.
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
1902–2002 · Mexico · Photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
1903–1993 · Mexico · Photographer
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
1903–1975 · United States · Photographer
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia