Air-raid Alarm, Bilbao 

People stand on the pavement looking up at the sky. A young girl with a misbuttoned coat that is slipping off her shoulder begins to run as she is pulled along by her mother, whose neck is also craned upwards. The girl’s worried eyes stare ahead to the other side of the road, though it seems nothing there offers comfort. The camera has captured an instant when these gestures and facial expressions have given visible form to the sudden blaring of an air-raid siren.
At this time in Spain, fierce fighting was breaking out across the country over differences of ideology. In April 1937, the month before this photo was taken, a town to the east of Bilbao had been bombed. That destruction later prompted Pablo Picasso to channel his anger into his now-famous painting Guernica, though this small photograph by Robert Capa is no less of a record of the difficult times that eventually led to dictatorship.
(SAKAMOTO Kyoko)