(real name Gerta Pohorylle; 1 August 1910, Stuttgart, Germany - 26 July 1937, near Brunete,
Spain) was born into a Polish Jewish family living in Germany. She
became a war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of
photographer Robert Capa. Taro is regarded often as the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war and to die while doing so.
