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25/9/2007

4 Exhibitions

ICP, New York

Gerda Taro, Robert Capa, Other Weapons, Francesc Torres

Robert Capa, This is the war!

This exhibition will be drawn from The Robert Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography, the most comprehensive collection of work by one of the greatest photojournalists of the twentieth century. The collection contains the complete holdings of the photographer's career, including over 2,300 vintage prints, among them his celebrated photographs of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
This exhibition will focus on six of Capa's greatest war reportages. With vintage prints, contact sheets, caption sheets, handwritten observations, personal letters and original magazine layouts the stories are brought to life and give us a look at how Capa worked. The Falling Soldier, 1936; The Battle of Rio Segre, 1938; and Refugees from Barcelona, 1939 trace his reportage of The Spanish Civil War. Also featured is China: Hankou, 1938, and from World War II: D-Day, 1944, and Parachute Jump across the Rhine, 1945.
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Gerda Taro

Gerda Taro (1910-1937) was a pioneering photojournalist whose brief career consisted almost exclusively of dramatic photographs from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Her photographs were widely reproduced in the French leftist press, and incorporated the dynamic camera angles of New Vision photography as well as a physical and emotional closeness to her subject. Taro worked alongside Robert Capa, who was her photographic as well as romantic partner, and the two collaborated closely. While covering the crucial battle of Brunete in July 1937, Taro was struck by a tank and killed. Taro's photographs are a striking but little-known record of this important moment in the history of war photography. ICP now holds what is by far the world's largest collection of her work, including approximately 200 prints as well as original negatives. This exhibition will include vintage and modern prints, and magazine layouts using Taro's images. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 184-page ICP/Steidl catalogue, the first major collected document of Gerda Taro's photographs ever published.
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Other Weapons
Photography and print culture during the Spanish Civil War

The posters of the Spanish Civil War have become the emblematic visual sign of a national conflict that became international from 1936-1939. Described as "shouts from the wall," the vibrancy of the color and design of the posters, and the messages they sent, signaled for many the powerful role that propaganda played in creating an image of war that was used in Spain and exported actively. Along with the wall-papering of the posters, was the publication in Spain of hundreds of magazines. Considering their impact at the time, it is surprising that they have been virtually unexamined by art historians.
Other Weapons presents a survey of these magazines showing the diversity and inter-relationships among the original magazines, posters, vintage photographs, and archival documents from libraries and archives in Spain and the United States. The exhibition is curated by art historian Jordana Mendelson, Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University.
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Francesc Torres
Dark Is the Room Where We Sleep

On the night of September 16, 1936, forty-six supporters of Spain's Republican government were killed in the village of Villamayor de los Montes, and buried in an unmarked mass grave. As it does in this small village outside of Burgos, in northern Spain, the violent history and legacy of the Spanish Civil War remains buried throughout the country, in both metaphorical and concrete ways. In 2004, Barcelona-based artist Francesc Torres joined forces with a forensic anthropology team as they uncovered the mass grave. Torres photographed the work of forensics team, as well as the participation of local townspeople who became involved in the project. Torres has created an installation of black-and-white photographs from this documentation that poignantly and forcefully examines the relationships between war, violence, memory, and photography. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, published by Actar press in Barcelona, and will be presented at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona after its ICP showing.

Image by Gerda Taro

Opening 26 september 2007

International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, New York

General Admission: $12
Students and Seniors: $8
Members: Free
Children under 12: Free

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