Saturday, February 3, 2024

Visual Relics (1957-1962)

Arthur Tress
Merry-Go-Round, Coney Island
1957
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Aaron Siskind
Chicago Façade
1957
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Irving Penn
Ivy Compton-Burnett
1958
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, London

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Adelaide Milton de Groot
1958
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Lorrie Goulet
ca. 1958
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Peggy Guggenheim
1959
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Edward Hopper
1961
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Harry Shunk
Yves Klein saut dans la vide, Paris
1960
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Bruce Davidson
Boy Sipping Tea, Not a Bum
1960
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Bruce Davidson
London
1960
gelatin silver print
Yale Center for British Art

Mark Strizic
Buckley's, Bourke Street, Melbourne
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Diane Arbus
A Very Thin Man in Central Park
1961
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Rollie McKenna
Anne Sexton
1961
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Athol Shmith
Vivien Leigh as Camille
1961
hand-colored gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Lee Friedlander
Baltimore
1962
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Bert Stern
Marilyn Monroe
1962
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Then maddened by the fates, unhappy Dido
calls out at last for death; it tires her
to see the curve of heaven. That she may
not weaken in her plan to leave the light,
she sees, while placing offering on the altars
with burning incense – terrible to tell –
the consecrated liquid turning black,
the outpoured wine becoming obscene blood.

– Dido's misery, from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)