Sunday, December 24, 2023

Visual Relics (1970-1971)

Eliot Porter
Parthenon, Athens
1970
dye transfer print
Princeton University Art Museum

Eliot Porter
Lato, Crete
1971
dye transfer print
Princeton University Art Museum

Nancy Rexroth
A Woman's Bed, Logan, Ohio
1970
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Joanne Leonard
Man in Mirror
1970
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Joanne Leonard
Merida Morning
1971
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Ruth Levy
Untitled
1970
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Eikoh Hosoe
Embrace no. 15
1970
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Eikoh Hosoe
Embrace no. 52
1971
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jim Dow
Abandoned Merry-Go-Round, Close View,
US 119, Point Marion, Pennsylvania

1971
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Ruth Bernhard
Billie with Feathers
1971
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
1971
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Nicholas Nixon
Kobla's Hong Kong Room, Minneapolis
1971
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Neil Folberg
Gypsy Family, Macedonia
1971
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Neil Folberg
Cooper and Coffin-maker, Prilep, Macedonia
1971
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Gilles Peress
Funeral of Civilians killed in the Internment Riots, Derry
1971
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Bob Lerner
Vietnam Veterans Protest March
Washington DC

1971
inkjet print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Protest

Houses cutting the sky,
Words cutting the paper,
The helpful books
Stencilling the too crisp silhouettes –
"Come we will show you what you do not see" –
The gables on the houses, the sun on the windows, the chimneys –
Down to the geraniums in the windows! –
The men in the houses loving the women
Because they have yellow hair, or blue eyes,
Or red hair –
Because . . . because . . .
Making love definite,
Giving love an edge.  . . .
Nowhere does life
Create a crystal nothing
That the mind may slip down
Blue voids
And find its own dream.

– Marion Strobel (1926)