Saturday, December 16, 2023

Visual Relics (1957-1959)

Imogen Cunningham
Ruth Asawa and her Family
1957
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

René Burri
Garden Party, Berlin
1957
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

David Vestal
New York (West 22nd Street)
1958
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Missouri

Duane Michals
Andy Warhol
1958
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Joseph Sterling
Typing Class
ca. 1958
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pirkle Jones
Worker, Saratoga, California
1958
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Roger Mayne
Southam Street, W10
ca. 1958
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Wynn Bullock
The Pilings
1958
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Sid Avery
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward at home in Beverly Hills
1958
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert Gene Wilcox
Church Entrance, River Falls, Wisconsin
1959
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Richard Avedon
Madame and Monsieur Georges Braque
1959
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Aldo Sessa
Rio de la Plata
1959
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jean Mounicq
Ball in Northamptonshire
1959
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Arnold Newman
Philip Johnson
1959
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Rodney Galarneau
Untitled
1959
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

John French
Black and White Shoes
(fashion shot for The Daily Express)
1959
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

from Christabel

A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy,
And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head,
Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye,
And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,
At Christabel she looked askance! –
One moment – and the sight was fled!
But Christabel in dizzy trance
Stumbling on the unsteady ground
Shuddered aloud, with a hissing sound;
And Geraldine again turned round,
And like a thing that sought relief,
Full of wonder and full of grief,
She rolled her large bright eyes divine
Wildly on Sir Leoline.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816)

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
1959
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery