Room 205.03

The conflict in the Spanish Civil War attracted numerous overseas journalists and photographers who wanted to witness events directly. 

Margaret Michaelis had moved to Barcelona in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism in Germany. With ties to the anarcho-syndicalism movement, she was a contributor with the GATCPAC group and AC magazine in their architectural projects of social reform. During the Civil War, she produced works for the Propaganda Commission of the Regional Government of Catalonia and published photographs in Nova Iberia. Her education in Vienna, Prague and Berlin was evident in her most rapid and direct photos, with notable stylistic resources from New Photography, for instance high-angle and low-angle shots and clean compositions.