Friday, December 22, 2023

Visual Relics (1967-1969)

Bob Seidemann
James Gurley
Big Brother and the Holding Company

1967
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul Caponigro
Stone and Tree
1967
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Caponigro
Stonehenge
1967
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Paul Caponigro
Stonehenge
1967
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Joanne Leonard
Four Old Friends with Babies
1967
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Joanne Leonard
Reunion of Lifelong Friends
1968
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tony Ray-Jones
Scarborough
1967
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Tony Ray-Jones
Bournemouth
1967
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Danny Lyon
Demolition Men's Headquarters, 38 Ferry Street
ca. 1967
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Danny Lyon
Dropping a Wall
ca. 1967-68
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Danny Lyon
Weightlifters, Texas Department of Corrections
ca. 1968
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Danny Lyon
Showers, Texas Department of Corrections
ca. 1968
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Duane Michals
Self Portrait as if I were Dead
1968
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Judy Dater
Portrait of a Woman
1968
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Bruce Davidson
East 100th Street
ca. 1968
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Eugene Dwiggins
American Woman #3
1969
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

The Race 

This dream is green
And actual memory:
My father and I
In the neighbor's yard

Having just stepped 
Forth from the woods,
In summer, evening,
The light gone gauzy

About the shrubbery.
Perhaps it is joy
In the strangeness
Of our being together

Alone in such a place,
Or maybe it's only
The way the lawn slopes
Down its long expanse

Into our own backyard
That makes me dare him
To the race, first
One home the winner.

And am halfway there
And certain when he
Simply passes me by,
His trousers a thresh

Of fabric flowing
Smoothly on my right,
And then the amazing
Sight of him running

Steadily beyond me,
This father of chairs
And silences, halt
Figure of my youth.

How could I know then
My pursuit of him
Would never again come
Gladly to such an end?

– Robert Gibb (1990)