On a rainy afternoon in Manhattan today, I went to the epic show at ICP uniting the work of doomed lovers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, who together produced some of the most powerful and familiar images from the Spanish Civil War. He went on to gain fame shooting other battles (including the D-Day invasion), while she died very young in Spain, while traveling with Republican troops -- purportedly the first woman war photog to die in action. The image above, one of her best known, features a militia woman getting ready to fight Franco.
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