Friday, January 26, 2024

Visual Relics (1923-1928)

Emil Otto Hoppé
Portrait of Rebecca West
1923
chlorobromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

August Sander
Cretin
1924
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

August Sander
Painter's Daughter
1925
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Edward Steichen
La Duchesse de Gramont
(fashion shot for Vogue)
1924
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Edward Steichen
Foxgloves, France
1926
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Edward Steichen
Portrait of Beatrice Lillie
1926
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Alexander Rodchenko
Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky
1924
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
Balconies
1925
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
House of Mosselprom
1925
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
Columns of the Museum of Revolution
1926
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
Cigarette Girl, Pushkinskaya Square
1927
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Consuelo Kanaga
Portrait of Alice Rohrer
ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Anonymous Photographer
Gilbert Roland as Armand Duval in Camille
(publicity still for silent film)
1926
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

André Kertész
Chez Mondrian, Paris
1926
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Charles Sheeler
Staircase, Doylestown
ca. 1926
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Karl Blossfeldt
Salvia
ca. 1928
photogravure
Denver Art Museum

As soon as Jove's dear wife sees that her Dido
is in the grip of such a scourge and that
no honor can withstand this madness, then
the daughter of Saturn faces Venus: "How
remarkable indeed: what splendid spoils
you carry off, you and your boy; how grand
and memorable is the glory if
one woman is beaten by the guile of two
gods."

– Juno reproaches Venus for inciting Dido to love Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)