OUR AUNT ANITA

HE had been walking down a Barcelona street in the early days of the Spanish Civil War when a striking figure captured his eye. It was July 25, 1936, and the woman standing on a barricade really stood out.

Antoni Campañà jumped into action training his camera on the attractive Spaniard wearing militia fatigues.

Smiling broadly with all the early optimism of the Republican cause, she held up the classic black flag of Spain’s CNT anarchist trade union. The picture - like Robert Capa’s legendary Falling Soldier photo taken in Cordoba - would go on to become one of the most emblematic symbols of the war.