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| Madame Yevonde Portrait of Vivien Leigh 1936 dye transfer print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Lewis Wickes Hine Worker seated at Cylinder ca. 1936 gelatin silver print Brooklyn Museum |
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| Laure Albin-Guillot Untitled 1937 carbon print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Theodore Roszak Photogram with Three Spheres ca. 1937 gelatin silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Walker Evans James Agee, Old Field Point, NY 1937 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Dorothea Lange Spring Plowing in Cauliflower Fields, Guadalupe, California 1937 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Paul Outerbridge Chrysanthemums 1938 carbro print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Edward Steichen Block of Blue-Wave Delphiniums 1938 dye transfer print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Edward Steichen Delphiniums, Ridgefield, Connecticut 1939 dye transfer print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Max Dupain Discus Thrower ca. 1939 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Angus McBean Self-Portrait as Neptune 1939 bromide print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Lee Miller Portrait of Leonora Carrington 1939 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, London |
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| Morris Engel Coney Island ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Keast Burke Finlandia ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Keast Burke Harvest ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Jack Cato Portrait of a Woman ca. 1940 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
"Are you
now laying the foundation of high Carthage,
as servant to a woman, building her
a splendid city here? Are you forgetful
of what is your own kingdom, your own fate?
The very god of gods, whose power sways
both earth and heaven, sends me down to you
from bright Olympus. He himself has asked me
to carry these commands through the swift air:
what are you pondering or hoping for
while squandering your ease in Libyan lands?
For if the brightness of such deeds is not
enough to kindle you – if you cannot
attempt the task for your own fame – remember
Ascanius growing up, the hopes you hold
for Iülus, your own heir, to whom are owed
the realm of Italy and land of Rome."
So did Cyllene's god speak out. He left
the sight of mortals even as he spoke
and vanished into the transparent air.
– Mercury conveys Jupiter's displeasure to Aeneas, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)