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| Henri Bevan Le Pont de Saint-Cloud after the Franco-Prussian War 1871 albumen print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Edward Biberman The White Fire Escape ca. 1956 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths Alice and Leaping Fairy ca. 1920 silver chloride print (accepted by many contemporaries as a factual image) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jay Wolke World War II Watchtower, Salice, Italy 2005 inkjet print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| John Baldessari Two Sets (One with Bench) 1989-90 photogravure and aquatint Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Tina Barney Lady with Poodles - Big Apple Circus 2008 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Hanuman Vjasa Portrait of the Bikaner family of Rajasthan (males only) ca. 1900 hand-colored gelatin silver print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Cornelis Vermeulen Trompe l'oeil Still Life - Letter Rack 1673 oil on canvas Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Miles Coolidge Police Station, Kids R Us, McDonald's (Safetyville - a miniature outdoor town in Sacramento) 1994 C-print Gugenheim Museum, New York |
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| Miles Coolidge Industrial Buildings (Safetyville - a miniature outdoor town in Sacramento) 1994 C-print Gugenheim Museum, New York |
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| Ruth Thorne-Thomsen Levitating Man, Wisconsin 1983 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Mark Thompson U-Plant Explodes ca. 1977-79 screenprint (anti-nuke poster with fictitious disaster) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Marcel Duchamp The Marcel Duchamp Art Medal 1964 bronze Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Mitch Epstein Warehouse 2000 C-print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Karel van der Pluym St Matthew and the Angel ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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| Judy Pinto Skin Tent for a Backbone 1978 watercolor, graphite and crayon on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Saint Joan
When I was seven, I had a vision:
I believed I would die. I would die
at ten, of polio. I saw my death:
it was a vision, an insight –
it was what Joan had, to save France.
I grieved bitterly. Cheated
of earth, cheated
of a whole childhood, of the great dreams of my heart,
which would never be manifest.
No one knew any of this.
And then I lived.
I kept being alive
when I should have been burning:
I was Joan, I was Lazarus.
Monologue
of childhood, of adolescence.
I was Lazarus, the world given to me again.
Nights I lay in my bed, waiting to be found out.
And the voices returned, but the world
refused to withdraw.
I lay awake, listening.
Fifty years ago, in my childhood.
And of course now.
What was it, speaking to me? Terror
of death, terror of gradual loss;
fear of sickness in its bridal whites –
When I was seven, I believed I would die:
only the dates were wrong. I heard
a dark prediction
rising in my own body.
I gave you your chance.
I listened to you. I believed in you.
I will not let you have me again.
– Louise Glück (2001)