Sunday, November 5, 2023

Visual Relics (1964-1969)

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowden
Barbara Hepworth (Sculptor) 
1964
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowden
Francis Haskell (Art Historian)
1966
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Bruce Davidson
Untitled
ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Aaron Siskind
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation
1965
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Women at Kabuki Actor's Funeral, Tokyo
1965
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Chartres (Eure-et-Loire)
ca. 1968-69
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Marie Cosindas
Dolls, Boston
1966
C-print from large-format Polaroid
Milwaukee Art Museum

Garry Winogrand
New York City
1967
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Diane Arbus
Lady at a Masked Ball, New York City
1967
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Diane Arbus
Charles Atlas Flexing, Palm Beach, Florida
1969
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Larry Clark
Mexico
1967
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Josef Sudek
On the Windowsill of My Studio
ca. 1968
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

William Klein
Armistice Day, Paris
1968
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bill Owens
Nudist, San Francisco
ca. 1968
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Lee Friedlander
Jean Genet, Chicago
1968
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Lee Friedlander
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
1969
gelatin silver print
Milwaukee Art Museum

from Sudden Snow

and the snow like Charles Olson working on one of his ABC
                                                                                   poems
                       is quietly and bitterly falling
                       but we don't know that yet, you drink more tea
                       your arm feels a little bit thinner

this morning two ladies from Jehovah's Witnesses came to call
        on me in my dungarees, explaining their 3,750,000 copies 
        printed
in Cinyanja, Cishona, English, Ilocano, Tagalog and Twi,
                 Marathi, Pangasinan, Papiamento, Silozi, Xhosa,
                 Zulu and Finnish
so all day I think of the terrible limitations of poetic style "as we
                                                           know it"
                    till you take me to the movies which reach everywhere
and remind  me that you understand me better than I understand
                                                                    you
                                                                    and I am happy
                                                                    yes, it's time to go
       
– Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

Leonard Weigh
Men hauling Dummy up Street Pole, Melbourne
ca. 1965
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne