International Center of Photography Library
What could possibly be hiding under there? Ah, there he is. . .Bob! Robert Capa! In 1968 the Robert Capa Award [artifact] had a new unveiling to a special select audience of the OPC - Overseas Press Club, Inc. Cornell Capa introduced the new bronze Robert Capa award to a crowded and excited room. In… Continue reading The OPC in 1968
In 2002 Alex Kershaw published a biography of Robert Capa Blood and Champagne. It is a Robert Capa biography that explores not only the career of a heroic photojournalist, but also the other side of the man: The drinking, the womanizing and the gambling. Kershaw is not an art historian or a photo historian. He… Continue reading Blood and Champagne – an interview with Alex Kershaw
Spring in New York City is a wonderful time to experience all those rare and hard to find photobooks many covet, but are unable to afford. Beginning with The AIPAD Photography Show at the end of March and ending with the New York Photo Festival in mid-May, an amazing array of photobooks are on view… Continue reading New York Antiquarian Book Fair
The Founders Scrapbook covers a vital period of ICP history. The scrapbook begins with two photographic images of the 1130 5th Avenue building, often affectionately referred to by ICP employees as the “old building” or the “building uptown” - the Willard Straight House. This scrapbook contains press materials, clippings, reviews, invitations and photographs assembled by… Continue reading ICP the Founders Scrapbook, 1974
A small selection of photobooks in honour of Mother. The Kitten's Little Boy by Dare Wright R TR729.C3 W75 1971 "Did you say his kitten? Cats never belong to people, said his mother [p.5]". A beautiful Dare Wright book in which an independent mother cat tries to explain to the littlest kitten that boys belong… Continue reading Mother
There is this group of islands off the coast of northern Europe – roughly divided into England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales – where sometimes it is extremely beautiful and sometimes it is merely compelling in it's bland ordinariness. At other times these islands are bleak and gritty and yet still other times they are mysterious… Continue reading A small selection of Photobooks from those damp little islands
Monsters & Madonnas 