Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Visual Relics (1918-1924)

Jessie Tarbox Beals
Mrs Dwight K. Yerxa as Queen Isabella
in the Minneapolis pageant, Torchbearer

1918
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jessie Tarbox Beals
Pageant of the Civic Players of Minneapolis
1918
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Daguerre Studio (Chicago)
Ruth Page in The Birthday of the Infanta
(ballet production, Chicago Opera Association)

1919
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Paul Haviland
Suzanne Lalique (artist and designer)
ca. 1919
platinum print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Man Ray
William Carlos Williams (physician and poet)
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Alfred Cheney Johnston
Dolores and Helene Costello (silent screen stars)
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Arthur F. Kales
Model with Translucent Drapery
ca. 1920
bromoil print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Arthur F. Kales
Doris Humphrey (dancer and choreographer)
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Untitled
ca. 1920
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Arthur Rice
Alla Nazimova (silent screen star)
ca. 1921
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Laura Gilpin
Fishermen at Concarneau, France
1922
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Edward Weston
Stanwood Badger (artist)
1923
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Eugène Atget
Le Printemps by Philippe Magnier
(statue at Versailles)

1922
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Eugène Atget
Venus by Pierre Legros the Elder
(statue at Versailles)
1923-24
gelatin silver chloride print
Princeton University Art Museum

Eugène Atget
Sleeping Ariadne, or Cleopatra,
after antique original at the Vatican
(statue at Versailles)

ca. 1923-24
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Eugène Atget
Hameau de la Reine, Versailles
ca. 1923-24
albumen print
Princeton University Art Museum

Sonnet in Search of an Author

Nude bodies like peeled logs
sometimes give off a sweetest
odor, man and woman

under the trees in full excess
matching the cushion of

aromatic pine-drift fallen
threaded with trailing woodbine
a sonnet might be made of it

Might be made of it! odor of excess
odor of pine needles, odor of
peeled logs, odor of no odor
other than trailing woodbine that

has no odor, odor of a nude woman
sometimes, odor of a man.

– William Carlos Williams (Pictures from Brueghel, 1962)

Joseph Petrocelli
Away from the Beaten Path - Venice
ca. 1923
bromoil print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art