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| Jonas Dovydenas Bystanders at a Funeral Procession ca. 1970 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joel Sternfeld Great Salt Lake, Utah 1979 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joel Sternfeld A Blind Man in his Garden, Homer, Alaska 1984 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Struth The Restorers at San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples 1988 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Richard Misrach White Man Contemplating Pyramids 1989 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
The Distance of the Dead
How distant in a moment are the dead!
Round Mamre's Cave, four thousand years ago,
A long procession up from Egypt led,
Closed mourning, like a sable cloud of woe.
Loud was the grief, and round about it a throe
Passed from it into nature – passed and fled!
And now, even where the Patriarch's hoar head
In the cold gloom lay drift-like, none may know.
All of those mourners died too, and at last
Fell like dim shadows from the world away:
How far back in the dawn of Time they passed
Into the mortal mystery of decay –
And yet the Loved One who but died to-day,
Is sundered from us by a gulf as vast!
– Charles Harper (1813-1868)
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| Thomas Struth The Uffizi I, Florence 1989 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Struth Art Institute of Chicago II, Chicago 1990 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Andy on Baker Street 1993 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jonas Dovydenas Vilnius, Lithuania, Prisoner on Death Row 1996 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Bernhard Willhelm looking back 2001 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alec Soth Lenny, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2002 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joel Sternfeld Tolstoy Farm, Davenport, Washington 2004 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Struth The Felsenfeld/Gold Family, Philadelphia 2007 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Collum 2011 inkjet print Art Institute of Chicago |