Supporting Our Troops ...

Captured from a bus heading north on Broadway, just before West 96 Street. You can read the shirt's lettering more clearly on large. For those not familiar with it, the yellow ribbon is a universal symbol for "Support Our Troops," found on the rear end of a substantial number of cars in our home town of Northampton, Massachusetts, in a very liberal state.

Our museum/gallery visits today were first to the International Center of Photography (ICP), and then to the American Folk Art Museum.

The ICP had a large and excellent show on Latin American photography from 1944 to 2013. To a degree it paralleled the images by Garry Winogrand which we saw yesterday (also taken over several decades), but these are much more vivid and often even violent. A much smaller show featured personal snapshots by a photographer for Life in France in 1944 after the Normandy landing--he covered that, but these image show his personal experiences (we bought a wonderful small book with them, published in France--worth acquiring from the ICP if you are interested).

The Folk Art museum has a superb show of 100 choice objects from its collection--it ends August 17th, but it's worth a detour in the meantime, if you can make it.