Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Visual Relics (1982-1983)

Mark Morrisroe
Self Portrait
1982
C-print from Polaroid
Princeton University Art Museum

Joel-Peter Witkin
Canova's Venus N.Y.C.
1982
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Arnold Newman
Wrapped Figures, George Segal's Studio, New Jersey
1982
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Marie and Babe
1982
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Don McCullin
Lebanese Family leaving the Martyrs' Cemetery, Beirut
1982
gelatin silver print
Tate Gallery

Jem Southam
Cove Cafe, St Agnes, Cornwall
1982
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Coplans
Mummers' Parade, Philadelphia
1982
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Lawrence J. Merrill
New York City
1982
C-print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Evelyn Hofer
Villa Medici, Rome
1982
dye transfer print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

William Eggleston
Graceland
ca. 1982
dye imbibition print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lynne Cohen
Emergency Measures Auditorium
1982
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Linda Butler
Staircase, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
1982
gelatin silver print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Jo Alison Feiler
#53
1982
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Main Room (left), the Hearth Room (right),
of the Old Shoin, viewed from
North-east Second Room (foreground)

1982
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Lucas Samaras
Panorama Self Portrait,
One Knee Up

1983
C-print
Chrysler Museum of Art,
Norfolk, Virginia

Nancy Hellebrand
Sarah
1983
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Totem Pole

I put an animal on an animal
which I put onto the animal I had already stacked
on top of my first animal and stood back
to appraise my work only
it looked much too short despite the number
of animals I had gathered, and I felt tired and silly
and disappointed, slumping to my knees, rocking
back onto my bum, then lying down to stare
into the hoary sky until my eyeballs softened
and I was forced by the consistent light
to close them and listen to the animals taking
a surprisingly long time to disorganize themselves.

– Jack Underwood (2016)