Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Visual Relics (1908-1912)

Charlotte Spaulding Albright
Untitled (Branches over Stream)
ca. 1908
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Wilbur Heber Porterfield
Grecian Sculptures in Buffalo - Caryatids at the Albright Art Gallery
ca. 1909
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Wilbur Heber Porterfield
Albright Art Gallery - West Approach
ca. 1909
carbon print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Frank Eugene
Adam and Eve
ca. 1910
photogravure
Denver Art Museum

Imogen Cunningham
Eve Repentant
1910
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Imogen Cunningham
The Vision
1910
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Eugène Atget
Interior of Monsieur T.,
Merchant, rue Montaigne, Paris

1910
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Eugène Atget
Atget's Desk
ca. 1910
gelatin silver print
(printed by Berenice Abbott after 1927)
Yale University Art Gallery

Karl Struss
Untitled
1910
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Karl Struss
Penn Station, New York
1911
platinum print
Yale University Art Gallery

Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau
Portrait of a Young Girl
ca. 1910
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Augustus Jackson Thibaudeau
Seated Woman in Classical Garb
ca. 1912
platinum print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait, New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass-plate negative
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

E.J. Bellocq
Storyville Portrait, New Orleans
ca. 1912
modern gelatin silver print from glass-plate negative
Denver Art Museum

Edward R. Dickson
Branches over a Pool
ca. 1912
platinum print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Edward R. Dickson
Through the Trees
ca. 1912
platinum print
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

A new dawn lights the earth with Phoebus' lamp
and banishes damp shadows from the sky
when restless Dido turns to her heart's sharer:
"Anna, my sister, what dreams make me shudder?
Who is this stranger guest come to our house?
How confident he looks, how strong his chest
and arms! I think – and I have cause – that he
is born of gods. For in the face of fear
the mean must fall. What fates have driven him! 
What trying wars he lived to tell! Were it not
my sure, immovable decision not
to marry anyone since my first love,
turned traitor, when he cheated me by death,
were I not weary of the couch and torch,
I might perhaps give way to this one fault.
For I must tell you, Anna, since the time 
Sychaeus, my poor husband, died and my
own brother splashed our household gods with blood,
Aeneas is the only man to move
my feelings, to overturn my shifting heart." 

– Dido begins to love Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)