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| Gertrude Käsebier Miss Dix ca. 1905 platinum print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| August Sander The Painter Otto Dix and his wife Martha 1925-26 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Brassaï Crosswalk on the Rue de Rivoli 1937 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Irving Penn Ballet Theatre, New York 1948 platinum palladium print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bruce Davidson Boy and Girl at Cigarette Vending Machine 1959 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Bruce Davidson Slumber Party 1959 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
from Upon being Asked by a Reader
whether the Verses contained in this Book were True
And is it True? It is not True.
And if it were it wouldn't do,
For people such as me and you
Who pretty nearly all day long
Are doing something rather wrong.
Because if things were really so,
You would have perished long ago,
And I would not have lived to write
The noble lines that meet your sight . . .
– Hilaire Belloc (1923)
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| Irving Penn Frederick Kiesler & Willem de Kooning 1960 platinum palladium print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals Two Circus Performers, Paris 1962 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals Ray Barry 1963 and 1977 gelatin silver prints Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals René Magritte 1965 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals Kim Novak 1967 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals Warren Beatty 1967 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Duane Michals Death comes to the Old Lady 1969 gelatin silver prints Art Institute of Chicago |
On a Sleeping Friend
Lady, when your lovely head
Droops to sink among the Dead,
And the quiet places keep
You that so divinely sleep;
Then the dead shall blessèd be
With a new solemnity,
For such Beauty, so descending,
Pledges them that Death is ending.
Sleep your fill – but when you wake
Dawn shall over Lethe break.
– Hilaire Belloc (1923)
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| Joel Snyder Untitled 1971 platinum print Art Institute of Chicago |