Thursday, February 8, 2024

Visual Relics (1978-1980)

Ruffin Cooper
Sleeve (Statue of Liberty)
1979
C-print
Brooklyn Museum

Max Dupain
Grand Palais, Paris
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Max Dupain
Les Invalides, Paris
1978
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Ellen Carey
Self Portrait
1978
gelatin silver print with added paint
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Ellen Carey
Self Portrait
1978
gelatin silver print with added paint
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Terence Higginson
Untitled
1979
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Jean McMann
La Roche aux Fées, Brittany
1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

György Kepes
Flowering Forms #6
1979
gelatin silver print
Denver Art Museum

Irwin Silver
Subway Entrance, AT&T Building, New York
1979
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Sidney and Abraham Waintrob
Isabel Bishop (printmaker and painter)
1979
gelatin silver print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
1979
C-print
Yale University Art Gallery

Cindy Sherman
Untitled
1980
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Martyn Rix
Untitled
ca. 1980
Fujicolor print
Yale University Art Gallery

Donald Ross
T-Shirts on Line, Berkeley, CA
1980
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Édouard Boubat
Hommage au Douanier Rousseau
1980
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery

Kenneth Snelson
Paris - Small Court with Blue Door
1980
C-print
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

            "My father, it was your sad image,
so often come, that urged me to these thresholds.
My ships are moored on the Tyrrhenian.
O father, let me hold your right hand fast,
do not withdraw from my embrace." His face
was wet with weeping as he spoke. Three times
he tried to throw his arms around Anchises'
neck; and three times the Shade escaped from that
vain clasp – like light winds, or most like swift dreams.

– Aeneas finds the dead Anchises in Elysium, from Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (1971)