Review: Kati Horna, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Born Katalin Deutsch Blau in Hungary in 1912 - Robert Capa was a childhood friend - she died in Mexico in 2000. In the intervening years Horna witnessed the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and World War I, fleeing Budapest for Berlin, and then on to Paris. During the Spanish Civil War she travelled around Spain, at the invitation of the Republican government, documenting everyday life at the front. She met her husband, the Andalusian artist José Horna, in Spain. When he was interned in a French prison camp, Kati managed to get him freed and they escaped back to Paris, and thence to America and Mexico.