Monday, January 29, 2024

Visual Relics (1934-1936)

Edmund Teske
Jim Sullivan and Brooklyn Bridge
ca. 1934
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Geoffrey Collings
Camden, N.S.W.
1934
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Alexander Rodchenko
Diver
1934
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
Photo-Reporter Evgenia Lemberg with Leica
1934
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Alexander Rodchenko
Sports Parade on Red Square
1936
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Berenice Abbott
Under the El, Lower East Side, New York
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Clarence Sinclair Bull
Greta Garbo
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Ilse Bing
Amboise Rooftops
1935
gelatin silver bromide print
Yale University Art Gallery

Consuelo Kanaga
Man with Rooster
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Consuelo Kanaga
Angelo Herndon, Labor Organizer
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Nathan Lerner
Girl in Boat
1935
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Nathan Lerner
Swimmer, Chicago
1935
selenium-toned gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Roman Vishniac
Grandfather and Granddaughter, Warsaw
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

August Sander
Stone Quarry in the Siebengebirge
(series, Rhineland Landscapes)
1935
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Dora Maar
Leonor Fini lying on a Floor strewn with Clothes
ca. 1936
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Dora Maar
Untitled
1936
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Iarbas was the son of Hammon by
a ravished nymph of Garamantia.
In his broad realm he had built a hundred temples,
a hundred handsome shrines for Jupiter.
There he had consecrated sleepless fire,
the everlasting watchman of the gods;
the soil was rich with blood of slaughtered herds,
and varied garlands flowered on the thresholds.
Insane, incited by that bitter rumor,
he prayed long – so they say – to Jupiter;
he stood before the altars in the presence
of gods, a suppliant with upraised hands:
"All-able Jove, to whom the Moorish nation,
feasting upon their figured couches, pour
Lenean sacrifices, do you see
these things? Or, Father, are we only trembling
for nothing when you cast your twisting thunder?
Those fires in the clouds that terrify
our souls – are they but blind and aimless lightning
that only stirs our empty mutterings?
A woman, wandering within our borders,
paid for the right to build a tiny city.
We gave her shore to till and terms of tenure.
She has refused to marry me, she has taken 
Aeneas as a lord into her lands.
And now this second Priam, with his crew
of half-men, with his chin and greasy hair
bound up beneath a bonnet of Maeonia,
enjoys his prey; while we bring offerings
to what we have believed to be your temples,
still cherishing your empty reputation."

–  Dido's neighbor-king complains to Jupiter of her unchastity, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)