Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Visual Relics (1890-1907)

Fratelli Alinari
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan
(shopping arcade)
ca. 1890
albumen silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Henry Bosse
Mississippi River from Bluffs at Pine Bend, looking Downstream
1891
cyanotype
Denver Art Museum

Frederick Hollyer
Portrait of Mrs Patrick Campbell
1893
platinotype cabinet card
National Portrait Gallery, London

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Teatro Greco, Taormina
ca. 1895
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Wilhelm von Gloeden
Sicilian Youth
ca. 1900
gelatin silver print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

attributed to Sam Lifshey
Portrait of photographer Gertrude Käsebier
ca. 1895
albumen print
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gertrude Käsebier
Portrait of Gertrude Springer
ca. 1897
albumen silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Albert Londe
Positive X-Ray Photograph of a Rabbit
1897
gelatin silver bromide print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Eugène Atget
Street Paver, Paris
ca. 1898
gelatin silver print
(printed after 1927 by Berenice Abbott)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Étienne Carjat
Pavillon du Printemps, Paris Expo
1900
ferro-cyanotype
Yale University Art Gallery

Baron Adolf de Meyer
Portrait of Pierre Loti
ca. 1900
platinum print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Baron Adolf de Meyer
Portrait of Coco di Madraggo
ca. 1900
platinum print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

George Charles Beresford
Portrait of Virginia Stephen, later Woolf
1902
platinum print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Willard Worden
Great San Francisco Fire seen from the Marina
1906
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Charlotte Spaulding Albright
Untitled (Forest Scene)
1906
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

George Seeley
The Painter
1907
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Then Drepanum's unhappy coast and harbor
receive me. It is here that – after all
the tempests of the sea – I lose my father,
Anchises, stay in every care and crisis.
For here, o best of fathers, you first left
me to my weariness, alone – Anchises,
you who were saved in vain from dreadful dangers.
Not even Helenus, the prophet, nor
the horrible Celaeno, when they warned 
of many terrors, told this grief to come. 

– Aeneas relates the death of Anchises, from Book III of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)