After the wonderful Sorolla exhibition, which is now in Madrid, the MNAC is hosting another must see with photos which inflamed the world and sent thousands of idealists like George Orwell to join the anti-fascist cause during the Spanish Civil War.
Robert Capa and his partner Gerda Taro were instrumental in filling the new media of illustrated weekly magazines which became so influential and of which they were some of the pioneers of photo-journalism.
The pictures are of the front line at the Battle of the Ebro, one of the bloodiest of the war and also shows the other tragic side of war with the flood of refugees heading out of Tarragona and Barcelona and heading for the French border in 1939 when the war was almost over.
Capa went on to record wars in China and was present for the D Day landing of which there are few such dramatic pictures.
Even after 70 years the Civil War and it's legacy is a period most Spaniards would rather forget but these photos will not let us and so it should be especially since Gerda Taro and so many others gave their lives in the effort.
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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