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| Evelyn Hofer Oaxaca Jar with Aubergine (Still Life No. 2), New York 1996 dye transfer print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| D.W. Mellor Three Shells I 1996 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Linda McCartney Self Portrait in Francis Bacon's Studio, Reece Mews, London 1997 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Bacon had died five years before this photo was made. McCartney was ill with cancer when she made it, and died the next year.
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| Abelardo Morell Camera Obscura Image – Manhattan View looking South in Large Room 1996 gelatin silver print Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Zoltán Jokáy Untitled 1998 C-print Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Philip-Lorca diCorcia New York City 1996 C-print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Rineke Dijkstra Hel, Poland, August 12, 1998 1998 C-print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Robert Shlaer Courthouse Mountain and Chimney Peak, Colorado 1996 daguerreotype Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Robert Shlaer West End of Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah 1996 daguerreotype Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Wolfgang Tillmans Kneeling Nude 1997 C-print Tate Gallery |
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| Joel Sternfeld Halcyon Temple of the People (Blue Star Memorial Temple), Halcyon, California 1997 C-print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Tacita Dean Disappearance at Sea II 1997 16mm film still Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Eugene Pierce Les Simpson, New York City 1997 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Eugene Pierce Dominique Vandenberg, New York City 1997 gelatin silver print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Charlie Meecham North Dean 1998 Ilfochrome print Princeton University Art Museum |
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| William Clift Two Doors, Mont Saint-Michel 1997 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
"Son, you are my only strength, my only power;
son, you who scorn the shafts of the great Father's
Typhoean thunderbolts, I call upon
the force within your godhead. For you know
how, through the hatred of resentful Juno,
across the sea and every shore your brother
Aeneas has been hunted down; and often
you have sorrowed with my sorrow. Now Phoenician
Dido has hold of him; with sweet words she
would make him stay. The hospitality
of Juno – and where it may lead – makes me
afraid; at such a turn I know she'll not
be idle. So, before she has a chance,
I plan to catch the queen by craftiness,
to girdle Dido with a flame, so that
no god can turn her back; I'll hold her fast
with great love for Aeneas. Hear me now;
I need your help to carry out this plot.
Ascanius, my dearest care, is ready
to go along to the Sidonian city,
called by his loving father, carrying
gifts saved from Troy in flames and from the sea.
But I shall lull the royal boy to sleep
on high Cythera or Idalium
and hide him in my holy house, so that
he cannot know – or interrupt – our trap.
And you will need – for one night and not more –
to counterfeit his features; as a boy,
to wear that boy's familiar face, and so
when Dido, joyful, draws you close during
the feasting and the flowing wine, when she
embraces you, and kisses tenderly,
your breath can fill her with a hidden flame,
your poison penetrate, deceivingly."
– Venus instructs Cupid, from Book I of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)