Anita Garbín
Spanish anarchist
Ana Garbín Alonso (1915–1977), also known as Anita Garbín or the Anarchist Madonna, was a Spanish anarchist dressmaker and militiawoman. She became an icon of the Spanish Civil War because of the photograph taken of her in 1936 by Antoni Campañà.
Biography
Ana Garbín Alonso was born in Almería in 1915, the eldest child of the anarchist railworker Manuel Garbín Ibáñez and the fruit grower Gabriela Alonso Martínez. Garbín's parents soon moved with her to Barcelona, where she went to work as a dressmaker.
Ana Garbín became famous for a photograph taken on 25 July 1936, in Barcelona, during the Spanish Civil War. In this image, Garbín was posing with the flag of the CNT-FAI. The photo would later be known as the Anarchist Madonna. On that day, Campañà was walking along La Rambla when he met Garbín at a barricade on the corner of Carrer de l'Hospital. Seeing the photographer, Garbín posed for him with the flag. She was pregnant at the time of the photograph. Shortly afterwards, Campañà was briefly arrested by a militiaman who mistook him for a spy.
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