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Standing guard at ICP

This past weekend, I went to the Gerda Taro show at the International Center of Photography. Shamefully, I had never heard of her before, and had never known her relationship with Robert Capa.

From the ICP website:

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.

The museum also offered a show of Capa's photographs, and combined, it was also a show about documenting the Spanish Civil War.

I took this photograph of the museum guard and ticket vendor on my way to the lower level of the museum. I guess you could call this real life: selling tickets, taking tickets.