Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Visual Relics (1870-1874)

Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Lionel and Henry Holland
ca. 1870
albumen print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Francis Frith
Chamonix - Mer de Glace d'Aiguille du Dru
ca. 1870
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Christina Nilsson (opera singer)
ca. 1870
hand-colored albumen prints (stereocard)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Annie Clark
ca. 1870
albumen prints (stereocard)
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jeremiah Gurney
Clara Louise Kellogg
ca. 1870
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

William J. Stillman
Ancient Theater at Syracuse (Sicily)
1870
carbon print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Frank Mason Good
Trees
ca. 1870
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Guadenzio Marconi
Couple and Dog
ca. 1870
albumen print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Guadenzio Marconi
Model in Academic Pose
ca. 1870
albumen print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Guglielmo Marconi
Model in Academic Pose
ca. 1870
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Guglielmo Marconi
Models against Painted Backdrop
(Eve and Adam in Eden)

ca. 1870
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Félix Bonfils
Cairo - Allée des Pyramides
ca. 1870
albumen print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Félix Bonfils
Temple of Jupiter (interior),
Baalbek, Lebanon (Heliopolis)

ca. 1872
albumen print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Félix Bonfils
Temple of Jupiter,
Baalbek, Lebanon (Heliopolis)

1872
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Bruno Braquehais
Coin des rues St Martin et Rivoli, Paris
(destruction wrought during the Commune conflicts)
1871
albumen silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

William and Daniel Downey
Madame Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre
ca. 1874
albumen silver print
(carte de visite)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

from Deciphering the Alphabet

From a north window,
the choked river, 
a slippery crack of light.
Does my neighbor notice me
crouched down,
my bare fingers exploring
the deer tracks I've found,
some chips in the ice?
I wave once,
but she stares
absentmindedly into the cold.
Pure imitation.
The great bored glacier of her face.

– Francine Sterle (2001)