Robert Capa

Dana and I checked out the Robert Capa exhibit at the International Center of Photography. Most moving for me are his famous D-Day landing photos. I didn’t know this before the exhibit but the blur and high grain of these snapshots were caused by a darkroom error at Life magazine, not from shaky hands on Capa’s part. The look of the photos with these artifacts, though, gives them a sense of motion and confusion they wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Later my sister and I had vintage drinks at the Flatiron Lounge. Our dapper, mustachioed, tucked-tie barman broke character when I heard him quote Superbad to a coworker. I felt like clapping my hands for attention and shouting with a lisp, “1920s, people! Stick with it!”