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| Giacomo Quarenghi Design for Oratory ca. 1820 watercolor and ink on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Giacomo Quarenghi Design for Oratory ca. 1820 watercolor and ink on paper Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Robert and Harriet Tytler Ghat in Benares ca. 1857-58 paper negative National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Linnaeus Tripe Great Pagoda, Tanjore 1858 albumen print from waxed paper negative Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Paysage ca. 1910 lithograph National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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| Karl Struss New York Public Library 1911 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Stuart Walker Mountain Rancho 1935 oil on linen Phoenix Art Museum |
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| Ben Shahn Paterson, New Jersey 1953 hand-colored screenprint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Mark Strizic Off Francis Street, Richmond 1962 gelatin silver print Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| Herbert Siebner Untitled 1962 watercolor on paper Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia |
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| Larry Schwarm House - Douglas County, Kansas 1974 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Larry Silver Beach House - Fairfield, Connecticut 1981 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Thomas Struth Palmerston Place, Edinburgh 1985 gelatin silver print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Madoka Takagi Central Park West & 106th Street, New York 1989 platinum-palladium print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Madoka Takagi 202 Exterior Street, New York 1990 platinum-palladium print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Hiroshi Sugimoto Chrysler Building by William Van Alen 1998 gelatin silver print Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Camilo José Vergara 10828 S. Avalon Blvd., L.A. 2011 inkjet print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Afterlife in Elysium
For them the sun shines at full strength – while we here walk in night.
The plains around their city are red with roses
and shaded by incense trees heavy with golden fruit.
And some enjoy horses and wrestling, or table games and the lyre,
and near them blossoms a flower of perfect joy.
Perfumes always hover above the land
from the frankincense strewn in deep-shining fire of the gods' altars.
And across from them the sluggish rivers of black night
vomit forth a boundless gloom.
– Pindar (518-446 BC), translated by Willis Barnstone (1962)