Sunday, January 7, 2024

Visual Relics (1986-1988)

Tina Barney
Jill and Polly in the Bathroom
1987
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Andi Brenner
Swimmer
ca. 1986-88
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Fred
1986
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

Günther Förg
Houses and Windows
1987
dye imbibition print
Art Institute of Chicago

Mario Giacomelli
To Silvia (poem of Giacomo Leopardi)
ca. 1988
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Graciela Iturbide
Cuatro Pescadites
1986
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Jo Brunenberg
Namur 1
1987
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Bruce Weber
Jerome and his Girlfriend, Paris Studio
1987
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Joel-Peter Witkin
Las Meniñas (New Mexico)
1987
photogravure
Princeton University Art Museum

Allan Sekula
Inco Smelter Workers' Lounge
overlooking Parliament Hill Bank of Canada

1987
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Arnold Newman
Twyla Tharp
1987
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

John Coplans
Self Portrait Hand
1987
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

René Burri
Havana
1987
C-print
Tate Gallery

Barry Lategan
Fashion Shot
ca. 1987
C-print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

William Lesch
Young Nopales #15
1988
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

William Lesch
Young Nopales #13
1988
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

"You, Aeolus – to whom the king of men
and father of the gods has given this:
to pacify the waves or, with the wind,
to incite them – over the Tyrrhenian
now sails my enemy, a race that carries
the beaten household gods of Ilium
to Italy. Hammer your winds to fury
and ruin their swamped ships, or scatter them
and fling their crews piecemeal across the seas.
I have twice-seven nymphs with splendid bodies;
the loveliest of them is Deiopea,
and I shall join her to you in sure marriage
and name her as your own, that she may spend
all of her years with you, to make you father
of fair sons. For such service, such return."

– Juno's address from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)