Showing posts with label royalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royalty. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2025

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton
Self Portrait
ca. 1924
gelatin silver print
Victoria & Albert Museum, London


Cecil Beaton
Elsie de Wolfe
1928
ink and watercolor on paper
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Carmel Snow
ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Paula Gellibrand,
later Marquesa de Casa Maury

ca. 1928-29
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Cecil Beaton
Juliana Force
ca. 1931
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cecil Beaton
Flora Whitney
ca. 1932
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cecil Beaton
Ruth Ford
ca. 1930-40
gelatin silver print
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Gloria Swanson
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Elsie de Wolfe
ca. 1939
gelatin silver print
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Cecil Beaton
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek
1943
photo-lithograph (poster)
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
H.M. the King wearing Admiral's uniform
1944
photo-lithograph
National Museum of American History,
Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Palace of Amber, Jaipur
1944
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Cecil Beaton
Gertrude Stein, 5 rue Christine
1945
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Lynn Fontanne
1952
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Cecil Beaton
Elizabeth II
1955
gelatin silver print
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Cecil Beaton
The Tackle
ca. 1960
oil on canvas
National Football Museum, Manchester

Cecil Beaton
William John Christopher Vassall
1966
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

from Remedia Amores

Come then sick youth unto my sacred skill,
Whose love hath fallen crosse unto your minde:
Learne how to remedie that pleasing ill,
Of him that taught you your own harmes to finde,
    For in that selfesame hand your helpe is found,
    Whence first ye did receive your careful wound.

Whiles well thou maist, and ere that secret ware,
Be thoroughly kindled in thy troubled minde,
If thou repent, ô run not on too far,
Retire, ere greater cause of grief thou finde.
    Treade down the starting seeds of springing wo,
    And turne thy Steed, ere he untamed growe.

Delay gives strength, time ripes the greenest grasse,
And makes corn stiff, that was a weake spring weed:
The greatest tree that farthest spreads his sape,
Was first a wand, or but a little seed.
    Then mought it be thrown down, drawne up, soone broke,
    Now stands it stiffe, and conquers every stroke.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by F.L. (1600)

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Selves & Effigies

Robert Ander
Self Portrait #3
1978
gelatin silver print
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia


Ilse Bing
Self Portrait in Mirrors
1931
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Andreas Feininger
Self Portrait
1946
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Hans Hammarskiöld
Self Portrait
ca. 1957
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

John Hertzberg
Self Portrait
ca. 1925-30
autochrome
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

John Hertzberg
Self Portrait
ca. 1925-30
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

André Kertész
Self Portrait, Paris
1927
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Todd McMillan
Self Portrait
2013
cyanotype
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

László Moholy-Nagy
Untitled (Self Portrait)
1926
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Erwin Olaf
American Dream - Self Portrait with Alex
2018
C-print
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Catherine Opie
Self Portrait Nursing
2004
C-print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Jan Saudek
Self Portrait with Camera
ca. 1960-65
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Catherine of Aragon
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Diana, Princess of Wales
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Duke of Wellington
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Elizabeth I
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Napoleon Bonaparte
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Queen Victoria
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Portraits Series - Richard I
1999
gelatin silver print
Guggenheim Museum, New York

from An Urban Convalescence

Out for a walk, after a week in bed,
I find them tearing up part of my block
And, chilled through, dazed and lonely, join the dozen
In meek attitudes, watching a huge crane
Fumble luxuriously in the filth of years.
Her jaws dribble rubble. An old man
Laughs and curses in her brain,
Bringing to mind the close of The White Goddess.

As usual in New York, everything is torn down
Before you have had time to care for it.
Head bowed, at the shrine of noise, let me try to recall
What building stood here. Was there a building at all?
I have lived on this same street for a decade.

Wait. Yes, Vaguely a presence rises
Some five floors, of shabby stone
– Or am I confusing it with another one
In another part of town, or of the world? –
And over its lintel into focus vaguely
Misted with blood (my eyes are closed)
A single garland sways, stone fruit, stone leaves,
Which years of grit had etched until it thrust
Roots down, even into the poor soil of my seeing.
When did the garland become part of me?

– James Merrill (1962)