Friday, November 3, 2023

Visual Relics (1957-1960)

Dave Heath
New York City
ca. 1957
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Dave Heath
New York City
ca. 1957
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Dave Heath
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City
ca. 1957
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Saul Leiter
Through Boards
1957
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Saul Leiter
Window
1957
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Saul Leiter
Reflection
1958
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

Saul Leiter
Snow
1960
C-print
Milwaukee Art Museum

William Klein
Fashion Shot, New York
1958
dye transfer print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

William Klein
Fashion Shot, New York
1958
dye transfer print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

William Klein
Piazza di Spagna, Rome
(fashion shot for Vogue)
1960
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Minor White
Song Without Words #12
ca. 1958
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minor White
Untitled
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Philippe Halsman
Randall Jarrell
1958
gelatin silver print
Indianapolis Museum of Art

Kenji Ishiguro
Carriers
1959
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Alfred Eisenstaedt
Leonard Bernstein
rehearsing Mahler at Carnegie Hall

1960
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Robert Frank
Untitled
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Randall Jarrell

The dream went like a rake of sliced bamboo,
slats of dust distracted by a downdraw;
I woke and knew I held a cigarette;
I looked, there was none, could have been none;
I slept off years before I woke again,
palming the floor, shaking the sheets. I saw
nothing was burning. I awoke, I saw
I was holding two lighted cigarettes.  . . .
They come this path, old friends, old buffs of death.
Tonight it's Randall, his spark still fire though humble,
his gnawed wrist cradled like Kitten. "What kept you so long,
racing the cooling grindstone of your ambition?
You didn't write, you rewrote . . . But tell me,
Cal, why did we live? Why do we die?"

– Robert Lowell (ca. 1965)

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
1959
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)