Images depicting conflict, part of a public installation by the pioneering war photographer Gerda Taro (1910 –1937), were obliterated by black paint, in an overnight attack on 3 August, Monopol and The Art Newspaper has reported. The installation had been created for the f/stop festival, which was held in Leipzig, Germany from 25 June to 3 July 2016. Taro, who was born in Stuttgart to a Jewish family, originally from the historic eastern European region of Galicia, worked with photographer Robert Capa, and was the first woman photojournalist to be killed in action, covering the Spanish Civil War. The f/stop festival organisers believe that the act was politically motivated. A police investigation is underway.
15 August 2016
