Thursday, October 31, 2019

Gelatin Silver Prints by Celebrated Photographers

Berenice Abbott
Flam and Flam, 165 East 12th Street, Manhattan
1938
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Berenice Abbott
Glass Brick and Brownstone Fronts
1938
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Yousuf Karsh
Berenice Abbott
1989
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Eugène Atget
Untitled (Pool in Landscape)
ca. 1919-21
gelatin silver print
(printed by Berenice Abbott after 1927)
Art Institute of Chicago

Brassaï
Leaving the Opera
1935
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Cotillion, from The Beggar's Opera

Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty:
She alone who that employs,
Well deserves her beauty.
Let's be gay
While we may,
Beauty's flower despised in decay.

Let us drink and sport today,
Ours is not tomorrow:
Love with youth flies swift away,
Age is naught but sorrow.
Dance and sing,
Time's on the wing,
Life never knows the return of spring.

– John Gay (1728)

Bruce Davidson
Untitled
1960
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Duane Michals
Hotel Room
1965
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Jack A. Jaffe
Michelangelo's David
ca. 1960
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bob Thall
Chicago (18th Street Pilsen)
1972
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

William Clift
Auditor's Office, Old City Hall, Boston
1970
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bob Thall
Sanitary and Ship Canal at Pulaski
1983
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Bob Thall
Woodbury County Court House, Sioux City, Iowa
1976
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

William Clift
Entrance Gate and Façade, Old City Hall, Boston
1970
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

William Clift
The Chanel, Mont Saint Michel
1999
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago