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DiaBoloix on September 19th, 2025 at 13:25 UTC »

About Marina Ginestà

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ginest%C3%A0

Spartan2470 on September 19th, 2025 at 14:26 UTC »

Here is a higher-quality version of this image in the original black and white. Here is the source. Per there:

> Juan Guzman photographed "Marina Ginesta, in the Hotel Colon, Plaza Cataluña" during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.

> The famous photograph was taken on 21 July 1936. It shows the 17-year-old Ginestà wearing an army uniform and posing with a rifle on the top of the original Hotel Colón, Plaça de Catalunya 9. The picture was taken during the 1936 military uprising in Barcelona. The rifle that Marina is holding is a M1893 Spanish Mauser, manufactured at the Oviedo factory in Spain for the Spanish Army. Because she was a reporter, it was the only time Ginestà had carried a gun.[1] The picture was soon published in a socialist newspaper. The picture later exploded in popularity due to the representation of the Spanish Civil War and is a now universal image of anti-fascism and conflict.[3]

> Marina stated about the picture: "It’s a good photo. It reflects the feeling we had at that moment. Socialism had arrived, the hotel guests had left. There was euphoria. We retired in Columbus, we ate well, as if bourgeois life belonged to us and we would have changed category quickly."

> The picture was later used on the cover of the book Las Trece Rosas by Carlos Fonseca. The hotel was destroyed after the war and the site is now occupied by the Banco Español de Crédito building.

MithranArkanere on September 19th, 2025 at 20:34 UTC »

She died on January 8, 2014, at 94.

Ending fascism is good for one's health.