Friday, November 15, 2019

Transitory Human Forms Fixed in Photographs (20th century)

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
The Famous Rowe Twins of the Casino de Paris
1929
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Cousin Bichonnade in Flight
1905
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Arthur Rubinstein, Zakopane
1913-14
varnished carbon print
Art Institute of Chicago

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Self-Portrait
ca. 1912
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Willard van Dyke
Ansel Adams at 683 Brockhurst
1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Willard van Dyke
Boxer's Hands
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

from On the Origins of Consciousness

        It was thus that conclusions were drawn: though the I was persuasive, capable of insight and precise sensation, contained in flesh as it was, it was unable to retain even one full instant of being. In every moment – regardless of season – it pruned back the thicket of wonder. Each night, unfailingly, chastened by memory in the small room of sleep: recollection returning to the I with its arms full of all the precious, abandoned things.

– Ellen Hinsey (The White Fire of Time, Wesleyan University Press, 2002)

Arnold Newman
Jean Arp, New York City
1949
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Arnold Newman
David Hare, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1952
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

W. Eugene Smith
Untitled
ca. 1957-58
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

W. Eugene Smith
Untitled
1953
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Shay
Nelson Algren amuses a New Friend
1949
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Art Shay
Liz enjoying Smell-o-Vision with husband Eddie Fisher, Chicago
1960
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Dirk Bakker
Downtown, crossing State Street
1980
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Dirk Bakker
On the El
1980
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago