Yesterday I spent the day working from home -- editing video -- but in the evening we went to International Center of Photography for four shows:
Gerda Taro
This is War! Robert Capa at Work
Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture During the Spanish Civil War
Dark is the Room Where We Sleep: A Project By Francesc Torres
I thought the Torres project was excellent, and was glad to see the history / story of Taro being brought into light.
The Capa show, however, left me with mixed feelings: it's the best and most detailed collection of his war work I've seen, but I much preferred the exhibition that toured (from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) around 1996-1997, as captured in this book: Robert Capa: Photographs.
It just seems better to me to include all sides of his work -- both war and peace -- if we're really to understand the stakes of war.Above: 43rd Street walking back from ICP.
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