Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Visual Relics (1950-1953)

Minor White
Mark Adams, San Francisco
1950
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art

Louis Faurer
Barnum & Bailey Dressing Rooms, New York City
1950
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art

Louis Faurer
Barnum & Bailey Circus Performers,
Old Madison Square Garden, New York, N.Y.

1950
gelatin silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Louis Faurer
Accident, New York City
1952
gelatin silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Cecil Beaton
Princess Margaret
1951
Ektachrome color transparency
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Werner Bischof
Paper Doors
ca. 1951
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Werner Bischof
Unloading Grain - Calcutta, India
1951
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jane Bown
Evelyn Waugh with his Family
1951
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Irving Penn
Woman in Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn),
Marrakech, Morocco

1951
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

George Platt Lynes
Untitled
1951
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art

Arthur Siegel
State Street, Chicago
1951
dye transfer print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Arthur Siegel
State Street Jewelry Shop
ca. 1951
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Arthur Siegel
Cement Mixer
1953
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Saul Leiter
Flower Man
1952
gelatin silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Harold Edgerton
Dancer
1952
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Harry Callahan
Woman in Green, Chicago
1952
dye transfer print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

from Heisenberg Saying Goodbye to Mum at Lilyfield

Accommodate the action in your life
to wrest the deep perspective of the real
from cubic content realms of atmosphere
at play beyond the bank and shoal of time.

Then resonance begins, and all vibrates.
The syntax of position no more sculpts
this world of interpenetrative forms
than syntaxes of motion render grace. 

– Luke Davies (2016)