[Dolores Ibárruri, Spain]

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Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection
Section: War
February 8 - June 16, 2019
International Center of Photography
250 Bowery
Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), a Spanish Republican and member of the Spanish Communist Party known as La Pasionaria (the Passion Flower), was the most famous
Spanish woman of the twentieth century. After being jailed for political activities, she became one of the Communist deputies in the Republican government before the out-break of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). She was known for her fiery and violent speeches and radio broadcasts that encouraged the country to resist the Nationalists. She was also extraordinarily visible in the war, one of few Western European conflicts of the early twentieth century in which women trained and fought alongside men. Chim was likely commissioned by Regards, a Communist French newsweekly, to photograph her in
Spain in the spring of 1936; his images were published on the back cover of Regards on August 6, 1936, and illustrated an article about her in the same issue.