Saturday, January 13, 2024

Visual Relics (1998-2000)

Paul Caponigro
Two Pears, Cushing, Maine
1999
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Abelardo Morell
Pencil
2000
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Abelardo Morell
Camera Obscura Image of the Chrysler Building in Hotel Room
1999
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Joni Sternbach
Ocean Details #3
ca. 1999
platinum-palladium print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Micha Klein
Hope
(series, Artificial Beauty)
1998-99
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Robert Shlaer
Mouth of the San Rafael River, Utah
1998
daguerreotype
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Richard Misrach
Swamp and Pipeline, Geismar, Louisiana
1998
C-print
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Havana
1999
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Candida Höfer
Bibliothek der Kunsthalle, Basel I
1999
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Candida Höfer
Deichmanske Bibliothek, Oslo III
2000
C-print
Princeton University Art Museum

Jacques Garnier and Douglas McCulloh
Matt (La Jolla, CA)
2000
C-print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Liz Rideal
Capucines
(after Henri Fantin-Latour and Eugène Atget)
2000
photo-booth photograph collage
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Cornelia Parker
The Spider that died in the Tower of London
2000
digital print
Tate Gallery

Neil Folberg
Sagittarius
2000
gelatin silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Paula Chamlee
Petrognano, Italy
2000
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Angela Easterling
Three Ramiro Peppers
2000
photogram
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

              "The captains of the Danaans,
now weak with war and beaten back by fate,
and with so many gliding years gone by,
are able to construct, through the divine 
art of Minerva, a mountainous horse. 
They weave its ribs with sawed-off beams of fir,
pretending that it is an offering
for safe return. At least, that is their story.
Then in the dark sides of the horse they hide
men chosen from the sturdiest among them;
they stuff their soldiers in its belly, deep
in that vast cavern: Greeks armed to the teeth."

– Aeneas describes the Trojan Horse to Dido, from Book II of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)