International Center of Photography
For my second blurb I visited the International Center of Photography, otherwise known as the ICP. At this museum they are currently featuring the work of photographer Robert Capa. Capa’s most famous photographs were of the Spanish Civil War which lasted from 1936 to 1939. In these photographs Capa showed the lives of ordinary people during war as well as the fighting, suffering and destruction that the war caused. While the first floor mostly focused on Capa’a work during the Spanish Civil War, the basement showed his work in all the other places that he traveled to capture the world around him though photography. The photographs shown were of Japan’s war with China in 1938, D-Day and the fall of Germany in 1945. These photographs also seemed very real and graphic. Besides Capa’s work, there were also clippings from the time period from magazines such as ‘Life’. These pictures also were successful in putting the audience in the shoes of the people who experienced this war. Overall I found that the exhibit was longer then I had previously expected, but worth the extra time that was spent there. If you want to see and in turn experience the past through the eyes of people who lived almost 70 years ago, theICP is worth checking out.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
This goes back to our class discussion about the Museum of Natural History. Capa’s work here in the ICP is about documenting what’s happened in these past wars of the 20th century.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I am assuming that this is a very small museum since they only feature the work of an artist only. Does this museum only display photos? Do they have any other type of works?