Saturday, January 27, 2024

Visual Relics (1928-1930)

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Orchids
ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

André Kertész
Soligny-sur-Orne - In the Cloister
1928
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Josef Sudek
Silk Textile
ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Brassaï
Eiffel Tower
1929
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

T. Lux Feininger
Bauhaus Students - Karla Grosch and Georg Hartmann
ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

T. Lux Feininger
Paris Opera House
ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Ralph Steiner
Old NYC Post Office
1930
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Tina Modotti
Mural Study, Mexico
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Angus McBean
Mr Edgar Ritchard
1930
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Man Ray
Sleeping Woman
1930
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Man Ray
Solarized Double Portrait
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Wendell MacRae
People entering the RCA Building
1930
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Cecil Beaton
Portrait of W.H. Auden
1930
bromide print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Lucien Aigner
La Paix, La Guerre
1930
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Untitled
ca. 1930
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

August Sander
The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, posing
1930
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

                                 "When tomorrow's Titan
first shows his rays of light, reveals the world,
Aeneas and unhappy Dido plan
to hunt together in the forest. Then
while horsemen hurry to surround the glades 
with nets, I shall pour down a black raincloud,
in which I have mixed hail, to awaken all
the heavens with my thundering. Their comrades
will scatter under cover of thick night.
Both Dido and the Trojan chief will reach
their shelter in the same cave. I shall be there."

– Juno's scheme for Dido and Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)